B illions of people on Earth have a beloved pet in their lives, but the vast majority of those pets are dogs and cats.

In 2003 former Tuskegee Airman and pioneering Black journalist Chuck Stone wrote “Squizzy the Black Squirrel,” about a Philadelphia boy who bonds with a black squirrel in Fairmount Park. Squizzy was ...

The reputations of squirrels have had their ups and downs. According to a Pennsylvania Game Commission pamphlet, “Once there were so many gray squirrels in Pennsylvania that they were considered ...

Weeks after the deaths of Peanut and Fred, why do so many people still care about this squirrel and raccoon − and what motivates people like Longo and Bittner to keep wild animals as pets in the ...

Dreys are shaggy masses of leaves nestled against a tree trunk or cupped in a fork of branches 20 to 40 feet above the ground ...

Many are promiscuous ... Their elusive nature makes them hard to study so there’s little data on some species. In the United States, northern flying squirrels are endangered in Pennsylvania.