BANDSTED, England - A plump squirrel recently found itself in an unlikely situation — stuck inside a bird feeder. According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the squirrel ...

Every autumn, tree squirrels quietly pull off one of the most impressive logistical feats in the animal world, hiding thousands of nuts and seeds in scattered soil stashes, then recovering the vast ...

Squirrels are famously forgetful in popular culture, yet field studies show they can relocate roughly 85 percent of the nuts they hide, a success rate that would put most human key-finders to shame.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every fall, squirrels stash hundreds of nuts to survive the colder winter months. As someone who routinely “hides” things from ...