(Sound of California ground squirrel) Olivia Allen-Price: OK, A listener named Heather Young says she’s heard squirrels often called “rodents with tails.” I mentioned earlier, my husband calls them ...

10. Squirrels can heat up their tails to ward off predators. California ground squirrels have an interesting way of scaring off rattlesnakes. Like cats, their tails puff up when they go on the defense ...

The tail is horizontally (dorso-ventrally ... Although they forage on the ground, flying squirrels spend most of their time in trees, where they climb, walk, or run along branches, hopping over ...

The red squirrel is about 30 cm (12 in) long, the tail accounting for nearly a third of the total ... Within these habitats, red squirrels build nests 3-18 m (10-60 ft) above the ground inside a ...

If anyone has either trees in their yards, or if you have a bird feeder, you are familiar with squirrels. These acrobats, pests, robbers and property-damagers are present all over Ohio. They are so ...

including 15 inches of tail. HABITAT: Delmarva fox squirrels prefer mature forest of both hardwood and pine trees with a minimum amount of understory and ground cover. RANGE: Historically, this ...