If you live around squirrels, you know how busy they are all day long. They run up and down the trees, scurrying back and forth with food that they've found. The even leap from branches to get where ...

Odds are high you’ve seen a squirrel scampering along a power line like a tiny acrobat; its tail waving, little feet gripping, body bobbing.. This sight is so ubiquitous you likely don’t even stop to ...

"There's no animal as fast as the mountain boomer, the little red squirrel. 'He's so fast,' said Lindsey Rogers, a mountain man who grew up at a time when the woods were full of boomers, 'he can cut a ...

Parkour enthusiasts need look no further than up in the trees for inspiration. Squirrels’ aerial acrobatics make the rodents masters of the form, a new study suggests. A detailed look at how squirrels ...

Army-funded research on wild squirrels and how they jump at the University of California-Berkley aims to learn how to apply their acrobactic ways to future robot systems. (UC-Berkeley) Those twitchy ...

"Squirrels deciding and learning how to launch and land demonstrates the synergistic roles of biomechanics and cognition in robust gap-crossing strategies." Source: Dariusz Grosa, Pexels, free ...

"Squirrels deciding and learning how to launch and land demonstrates the synergistic roles of biomechanics and cognition in robust gap-crossing strategies." Source: Dariusz Grosa, Pexels, free ...

Note: This column originally was published Nov. 19, 2010. It seems that the general reputation of squirrels has declined in my lifetime. When I was a boy back in the 1950s, I don't recall negative ...