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Red squirrels are territorial and maintain individual middens ... You can tell there are differences in personality even before you get them in the Thunderdome. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society ...
From the Douglas squirrel in the west to the Arctic ground squirrel in Nunavut to the red squirrels introduced in Newfoundland in 1963, sciurids are as Canadian as maple syrup. Tree squirrels like the ...
A Canadian study shows that solitary squirrels ... "Contrary to other documented cases of adoption by asocial species, adoptions by red squirrels in our study did not represent misdirected ...
A team of Canadian scientists has been studying the fates of red squirrels in the Yukon, Canada for the last 22 years. Back in 2006, they showed that the squirrels can actually anticipate gluts of ...
Furry red squirrels in the Yukon are breeding earlier in the season. Researchers say it's living proof that mammals are changing their genetic makeup in response to global climate change.
This male red squirrel committed sexually selected infanticide and 'when the female had a second litter ... he was the father' You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...
He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel pups. Over the years, those squirrels have taught Boutin and his ...
Long-term research for the Kluane Red Squirrel Project has received ongoing support from the National Science and Engineering Research Council, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the National ...
A native predator of the red squirrel appears to be an unlikely ally in its battle with the grey squirrel. Scientists from Queen's University Belfast discovered that, while the pine marten preys ...
Red squirrel numbers have been in decline for decades following the introduction of the grey squirrel A wildlife centre in Surrey has been breeding red squirrels as part of a scheme to increase ...