The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September ...

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We let him play with the tree trunk after he had rooted out all the squirrels and tried to kill them ... frozen snacks, smears of peanut butter, and kibble. The curved bottom causes it to roll ...

To prevent damage to property, homeowners are permitted to kill red squirrels. This can be done using rat-size snap traps. Effective baits for both traps include peanut butter, peanuts, or other nuts.

McKellar says this is often how poison ivy, whose berries nourish many birds ... weed seeds make their way to feeders on the fur of rabbits, squirrels, and other animals that spend time nearby. Plus, ...

Red squirrels from the Formby reserve near Liverpool in north-west England had skulls with flatter braincases and longer ...

At the Formby reserve, red squirrels live among pine trees. However, throughout the 1990s and 2000s they were provided with supplementary food all year round in the form of peanuts in the shell ...

Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal Society Open Science.

A large team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. has found evidence that red squirrels fed by ...