Squirrels are a common sight you might not think twice about. But researchers like UC Davis behavioral ecologist Sonja Wild say there’s a lot they can teach us.
For the last few years, she’s helped lead research efforts as part of UC Davis’s Long-term Behavioral Ecology of California Ground Squirrels Project, which monitors a population in Briones Regional Park in the Bay Area. The native squirrel can be found throughout California, as well as a little into Southern Oregon and the Baja California peninsula.
The study is in its 13th year, and Wild says the team behind it has collected data on 1,300 different squirrels since it began…