Believe it or not, despite the noise and danger of highways, squirrels actually find the noise reassuring. Find out why.

Biologists found the could quite accurately predict what type of predator was threatening a squirrel by analyzing its sounds and tail movements. Everyone has watched squirrels playfully climbing trees ...

Stalking through the woods, a hunter spies a deer feeding, unaware, through the pines. Just a few more feet and, suddenly, an alarm sounds. The deer flees. Red squirrels seem to take particular ...

Not to brag, but I have a pretty complex collection of alarm calls. Through various combinations of noises and gestures, I can warn you about all kinds of threats -- from spinach in your teeth to ...

Nearly all grandparents, it seems, think their grandkids are pretty special. They tell themselves their perfect little gems are scholarly, athletic, cute, clever and astonishingly talented in so many ...

“If you give a mouse a cookie,” begins the children’s classic by Laura Joffe Numeroff, “he’s going to ask for a glass of milk.” The mouse moves in and becomes ever more demanding of the child who fed ...