QUESTION: Do all chipmunks have the same size tails? We have one that has a short tail and are wondering what it is. Just recently we have had more chipmunks in our yard. D. and A.P., Pittsfield ...

According to my surrounding neighbors, our fox family enjoyed my recent absence enormously. They turned my back deck into their personal observation deck and lounging spa for chilling out after a busy ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Kwasi Wrensford describes the genus Neotamius as "elfin": skittish little squirrel-cousins with angular faces, pointy ears and ...

Two years ago I wrote my first article for the Birmingham News about chipmunks. While I do not like repeating articles for the newspaper, in the past two weeks, I have been overrun with people ...

• Ladybugs, preparing for hibernation, concentrate in vast numbers on Bear Mountain, Green Mountain and other summits in the foothills. Monarch butterflies leave for Mexico. Box elder bugs and other ...

Let’s take a trip down memory lane. Remember those days when television was still in black and white and Chip & Dale were two furry rodent friends of Pluto? Let’s talk about chipmunks. The Eastern ...

Of all God's fuzzy little critters, chipmunks are the cutest, in my opinion. When my daughter was small, she called them chick-a-munks, which made them that much cuter and more endearing to me. I ...