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). It’s ...

The world contains more than 200 species of squirrels, but the ones on the UA campus are almost all eastern gray squirrels. They are mammals and their scientific name is Sciurus carolinensis.

This is no surprise, as Tallahassee is a city within a forest, and the most common herbivore in the area is the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Our only other squirrel species is the ...

The world contains more than 200 species of squirrels, but the ones on the UA campus are almost all eastern gray squirrels. They are mammals and their scientific name is Sciurus carolinensis.

On they came, day after day, a great, unrelenting tide of Sciurus carolinensis: the Eastern gray squirrel.Hoy saw a similar spectacle in 1847, 1852 and again in 1857.

The eastern gray squirrel. Sciurus carolinensis. Ten or 11 inches long on a good day, with a fluffy tail nearly as long as their body. They’re scruffy, they’re described to be kind of dopey-looking ...

Two species – the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and the fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) – thrive on campus landscapes and are willing participants in our behavioral experiments.

Curiously, the fox squirrel’s distribution almost perfectly mirrors that of the somewhat smaller Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) − 16.5-21.5 inches nose to tip of tail − ...

This is no surprise, as Tallahassee is a city within a forest, and the most common herbivore in the area is the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Our only other squirrel species is the ...

Our local small, nut-hiding mammal is the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) which confusingly can sometimes appear in a black variant around this area. They are found throughout the ...

This type of squirrel weighs between 1.9 and 2.2 pounds and measures 20 to 30 inches long. These are the most playful of the squirrels. They breed twice in December and January and then in June ...