nuts and seeds of deciduous trees and shrubs. Fungi, even some species of the toxic genus Amonita, and fleshy fruits may form a large part of the summer diet with the surplus carried aloft to dry ...

instead of stored nuts. The northern flying squirrel eats relatively more fungi, which it collects above ground, excavates from the soil, and pilfers from the caches of the red squirrel. Both species ...

But during the 1990s conservationists provided a local population of red squirrels in Formby, Merseyside, with a steady supply of peanuts. These softer nuts were given in such abundance that they ...