squirrel

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The campaign called for a national plan to humanely manage grey squirrel populations and urgent investment in squirrelpox vaccine development.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Locals give directions to out-of-towners using churches as landmarks, and a Masonic lodge was promoting a squirrel hunt one recent day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Supporting characters like Fiona, a flying squirrel, and Dash, a deer mouse, round out the cast.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

Despite being much more closely related to mice than to monkeys, squirrel evolution followed the primate playbook.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

“If he had turned it into a squirrel, would all the squirrels have attacked?”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff