After watching squirrels in California for 12 years, a team of scientists has seen them actively hunt down and kill small rodents this past summer. California ground squirrels are known to mostly ...

The observations were conducted in 2024 at Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County, California. Between June and July, researchers documented 74 interactions between ground squirrels and voles, ...

LOS ANGELES — A UC Davis study showed a nutty novel behavior in California squirrels: They’re hunting like carnivores, taking down and then consuming other, smaller rodents. As part of an ...

New research published in the Journal of Ethology documented California ground squirrels of all ages and genders hunting and eating voles. The man is a caretaker of Mangala indoor stadium. Squirrels ...

They are sometimes referred to as field mice. The research team from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of California Davis found that California ground squirrels actively hunt, ...

It was earlier believed that the squirrels were herbivorous and ate seeds, acorns, fruits, and nuts. “This is incredibly exciting, because this is the first time for this species that we’ve documented ...

A UC Davis study showed a nutty novel behavior in California squirrels: They’re hunting like carnivores, taking down and consuming other, smaller rodents. As part of an ongoing 12-year study of ...

Instead of simply stuffing their cheeks with fruits, nuts or seeds, the California ground squirrels there are now known to hunt, kill, decapitate and consume voles, a fellow rodent species ...

The findings, published in the Journal of Ethology, say these squirrels are ‘opportunistic omnivores’ that hunt, kill and eat voles when their supply is abundant The team noted that adults and ...

Scientists have for the first time ever found “shocking” evidence of carnivorous behaviour in squirrels — hunting and eating voles in California. Ground squirrels are often seen stuffing ...

They found that more than 42 per cent of the interactions involved active hunting of the small rodents by ground squirrels. “This was shocking,” Jennifer E Smith, an associate professor of bio ...