Unlike my dog, who never met a squirrel he didn’t hate, I have come to appreciate this stolid neighbor. Our local small, nut-hiding mammal is the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis ...

Squirrels hide nuts to prepare for cold weather and points when food is scarce. Grey squirrels stash them in multiple locations, often digging up and reburying so they remember the location ...

“So the squirrel carries [a nut] a species-specific distance and ... If you spent your whole life hiding bits of food that you relied on in your house, you would know where you’d put it ...

Flying squirrels in China have developed a clever way to hide their nuts — chewing grooves in them so they can be stored between tree branches. The unusual behavior, seen in two species in the ...

Tree squirrels mostly eat nuts, seeds, and fruit ... in which they spread their food across hundreds or thousands of hiding places, a labor-intensive hedge against theft. Thanks to detailed ...

A cheeky squirrel was captured on camera stealing food from another squirrel’s hiding place at Boston Common ... came next to me and started burying a nut,” Jennings told Storyful.