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I was recently asked by a local TV news station to answer a question about how squirrels find their buried nuts. This is a great example of super cool things that go on in nature that most people ...

As winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, people retreat indoors, and the pace of life seems to slow—but not for squirrels. Across forests, parks and your backyard, these animals go into ...

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Everybody knows that squirrels love nuts, but every squirrel knows that some nuts are better than others. “Walnuts are at the top,” Harmony Dalgleish says. “But they take a lot of handling time. Red ...

Every year, squirrels bury thousands of nuts, yet they only recover about a quarter of them. This is not due to forgetfulness, but rather a reliance on spatial memory and scent detection. Recent ...