Discover how ground squirrels survive winter without food or water through remarkable biochemical adaptations.

A team of molecular and physiology specialists at the Yale University School of Medicine has uncovered some of the ...

Specific brain regions involved in triggering thirst are strongly suppressed in hibernating ground squirrels, even during the ...

Usually, in the fall, as the temperature drops, so do brown acorns. During this time, we see squirrels storing food in large quantities, and we assume that winter is close by ... animals would eat ...