Nature that has benefitted from the wet weather at National Trust sites this year included water voles living in the new ...

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 ...

A UC Davis study found a population of Bay Area ground squirrels hunting and eating voles, suggesting the species may be more ...

The squirrels were long considered a granivorous species, but this new research suggests they may be more flexible when it ...

Researchers plan to return to the field next summer to try and gauge what impact the vole predation has had on squirrel reproduction compared to years prior.

A ground squirrel with cheeks stuffed with nuts, seeds or grains, is a common sight. But a new study provides the first ...

A new study this year has recorded for the first time widespread behavior of California ground squirrels eating other small ...

The first porcupine in a string of winter squatters and the first to enter right beside the doorstep to my home, this entitled individual even tread onto and then sidled sideways off the edge of the ...

Then, the squirrel would either strip the fur from the vole to expose cartilage ... watch a California ground squirrel during the 2023 field season. Sonja Wild, UC Davis Squirrels of all ages ...

Out of the 74 observed interactions of California ground squirrels and voles between June and July 2024, 42 percent involved active hunting by the ground squirrels. Sonja Wild, UC Davis California ...

researchers last summer watched as squirrels began to chase — and eat — voles, a cousin of field mice. This suggests squirrels are much more opportunistic in their diets than previously ...

Learn about the shocking behavior of California ground squirrels. They have been observed hunting and eating other mammals, ...