Ground squirrels at this park have long been a problem for the city, which has been cited by the county for overpopulation ...

Oh, and roughly 100 ground squirrels running across the lawn, and occasionally, directly toward you. It almost looks like a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, just furrier. As cute as they may ...

An example of altruism comes from ground squirrels, who may warn other members of their group about a predatory hawk overhead. This brings the hawk’s attention to the individual giving the ...

The insects’ compulsory altruism—a form of extreme social ... all social organisms that act cooperatively, such as the ground squirrels that sound off to warn their peers of a nearby predator ...

Even more intriguingly, Judson posits that altruism might stimulate the reward centers of the brain, generating “warm, fuzzy feelings” that are as primal as hunger or lust. Whatever the ...

Toni Morrison spoke at Harvard Divinity School on the subject of altruism in 2012 ... came primarily from the animal and insect kingdoms: squirrels deliberately attracting predators to themselves ...

By Mélissa Godin Male Arctic ground squirrels go through puberty every year. As if that wasn’t hard enough, now the females have a problem, too. According to a paper published on Thursday in ...