A squirrel day seems to consist primarily of burying and retrieving nuts. But upon closer observation, there's a little more to this.

Squirrels will retrieve the nuts as soon as there are no other food sources around. So, if you see the scavengers out in full force this fall, just remember they're on a survival mission.

“The squirrels are normally waiting for you to put nuts out for them, but the woodpecker arrived first and had to protect its territory," Crawford, 59, said.

A woman lives with an injured squirrel she saved from the roadside – and he now hides nuts in her hair as he prepares for winter. Mandy McKenna rescued Horatio when she found him lying concussed ...

I was recently asked by a local TV news station to answer a question about how squirrels find their buried nuts. This is a great example of super cool things that go on in nature that most people ...

P’Nut, a pet squirrel with a popular Instagram page, was seized by state government officials on Wednesday in Pine City, N.Y., and later euthanized to test for rabies.

Sometimes squirrels will even excavate and then rebury their nuts. This strikes Jacobs as a kind of geographic revision: “It’s not like they cache in September and then they have to remember ...