I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).

A chipmunk has brown fur covering its body. However, this rodent is known for the black and white stripes on its back and ...

The red squirrel’s appearance varies seasonally. The paler, reddish to olive gray coat of summer includes a black line along each side, and creamy white or buffy underparts. In the winter, reddish ...

The gray squirrel’s appearance differs seasonally ... each banded alternately with brown and black at the base and broadly tipped with white. Seasonal color variation is a function of fading and ...

In 2003 former Tuskegee Airman and pioneering Black journalist Chuck Stone wrote “Squizzy the Black Squirrel,” about a Philadelphia boy who bonds with a black squirrel in Fairmount Park. Squizzy was ...

Black squirrels — frequently found all over Penn’s grounds — were likely introduced over 200 years ago, and are now part of ...

I was recently asked by a local TV news station to answer a question about how squirrels find their buried nuts. This is a great example of super cool things that go on in nature that most people ...