After more than a decade studying California ground squirrels, Jennifer Smith felt she had a solid understanding of their behavior. Then, in the summer of 2024, her students spotted something she ...

A California ground squirrel eats a vole it hunted in Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County. Credit must be given to the creator. Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.

The range is southeastern Alaska, most of the forested regions of Canada, and in the U.S. extends into California and Nevada ... The northern flying squirrel eats relatively more fungi, which it ...

University of California, Berkeley ... Maybe not just on branches, but on complex flat ground, too." In parallel, Full is now ...

Salto the jumping robot can take a flying leap and land on a narrow pipe — just like a squirrel soaring from branch to branch.

A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot ...