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 ...

Homeowners often don’t notice tree damage until the leaves begin to brown, at which point the squirrel is long gone.

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 ...

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.

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 − ...

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.

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.

Red-bellied Squirrel (Sciurus aureogaster) -- Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) -- Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) -- Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) -- Northern Flying Squirrel ...

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 ...