Sexual maturation takes place during the following spring or summer. Mean life expectancy for a gray squirrel at birth is 1-2 years; the average life span of an adult is closer to 6 years. Records for ...

The paper cited previous research that showed squirrels to be “capable of killing and consuming adult fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.” But it remained “challenging to ...

Hibernation is an intricate process where an animal’s body shuts down almost completely in the winter and reactivates in the ...

The eyes open at 28 days; weaning occurs at 35-42 days, and at this age young flying squirrels are fully furred and nearly the same size as an adult. Throughout their development, females may ...

As squirrel monkeys are matrilinear, it is important that all females of a new group are related to each other, that is, that they come from the same natal group. The introduction of unfamiliar ...

Both adult and juvenile squirrels of both sexes participated in hunting voles, with at least 27 different individuals involved. Adult females accounted for nearly half of the traceable hunting ...

Their data, they claim, shows the first evidence of squirrels "repeatedly hunting, killing and consuming adult vertebrate prey in nature." Credit: Journal of Ethology. Jennifer E. Smith ...

A paper published on December 18 in the Journal of Ethology said that, “Over two months in the twelfth year of a long-term study on the squirrel population, we document 74 events of juvenile and adult ...