The primary message a squirrel sends with its wagging tail is a warning. If they see something dangerous or suspicious, they wag their tails to alert other squirrels.

There are many intriguing facts about squirrels—some of which you likely have never even heard before. Squirrels are far more than just those cute creatures who wreak havoc in your garden or cause ...

Among the several squirrels that clean up under our bird feeders, there recently have been two with no hair on their tails, a reader wrote recently. “They look like rat tails. Can you shed any ...

I am writing you because you published an article about a blue-tailed squirrel in Oregon back in 2016. ... scientific programs manager with the Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District.

To protect their young against rattlesnakes, California ground squirrels have evolved a special defense — they heat their tails. Squirrels in the wild wave their bushy tails at snakes in order ...

If you really want to get into squirrel signaling, there is a fascinating paper in the journal Behavior, by McRae and Green, that looked at the “joint tail and vocal alarm signals of gray ...