Hair loss attributed to the squirrel mange mite, Notoedres douglasi, has been reported in both fox and gray squirrels. Notoedric mange is different from sarcoptic mange. The latter, caused by the mite ...

I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – ...

a condition in which a squirrel possesses both a version of the genetic mutation and the normal variant, resulting in brown fur rather than gray or black. Tomke is currently involved in a ...

The Red Squirrel, as the name suggests, has reddish fur. It’s about half the size of a gray, and not as common. At least, we don’t see them as much. Fox Squirrels are the largest tree ...

Their little tufts of fur stand out against the dark green grass as they scamper their way along the map in their mind, and their carefully built nests stand in the bare tree branches of February like ...

When parted, the white hairs of the belly show gray bases, the fur on the upper parts ... predators of the northern flying squirrel. Mammals that are known to prey upon this rodent include the marten, ...

It is believed that a black-morph fox squirrel bred with an eastern gray and passed along the variant gene that causes the dark fur. From there, natural selection took over and now we see the ...