Researchers have found that female red squirrels showed high levels of multimale mating and would even mate with males that had similar genetic relatedness, basically mating with their relatives.

A group of University of Alberta researchers has discovered that a long drawn out search for "Mr. Right" is a luxury not afforded to female North American red squirrels. PhD student Jeffry Lane, who ...

Climate change appears to be disrupting the hibernation of females in the Far North, scientists say, and that could affect mating season. By Mélissa Godin Male Arctic ground squirrels go through ...

As soils in Arctic Alaska become warmer and freeze for shorter periods in winter, mating conditions for arctic ground squirrels are changing. New research published in the journal Science analyzes ...