Researchers documented the unexpected behavior of California ground squirrels that strayed from their diet of seeds, nuts and ...

A UC Davis study showed a nutty novel behavior in California squirrels: They're hunting like carnivores, taking down and then ...

A new study from the U.C. Davis and UW-Eau Claire found that California ground squirrels not only eat nuts and fruit, but ...

Researchers said in a new study that they were stunned to witness California ground squirrels, who mostly eat nuts and seeds, ...

“We had never seen this behavior before.” Most people are very familiar with squirrels, accustomed to seeing the animals on their streets or in their yards. And Smith is even more so—since ...

Now, scientists have found unprecedented evidence of another type of squirrel exhibiting carnivorous behaviors, including hunting, killing and eating voles, according to a new study. The research ...

A new study showed evidence for the first time of a species of California squirrel's "widespread" hunting of other rodents.

Ground squirrels have turned into carnivorous killers in a local park after vole numbers exploded in Contra Costa County, ...

A study reveals the first evidence of California squirrels eating voles. Experts explain why this phenomenon is critical to future behavioral discoveries in animals.

It was their post-kill behavior that proved especially unsettling, defying what may be expected of a species just beginning ...

California ground squirrels are also mostly "granivorous," although they have been known to eat bird eggs or the nestlings of local quail, pheasant, domestic chickens, and robins. There have been only ...