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And More Squirrel Facts","publishDate":1706180409,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Yes, That Squirrel Might Be Taunting Your Dog. And More Squirrel Facts | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>View the full episode transcript\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look out your window on any given day, and you might see a squirrel busily collecting nuts and burying them around the yard or scampering across swaying power lines like a trapeze artist. Depending on your point of view, they might be cute furry friends or “rodents with bushy tails,” just as likely to carry disease as rats or pigeons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, we asked Bay Curious listeners what they wanted to know about squirrels and got a huge response — over 50 questions about squirrel behavior, social practices, ancestry and economics. Today, we’re answering as many as we can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke to Lucia Jacobs, a cognitive scientist who has studied squirrel behavior for 40 years. \u003ca href=\"https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/lucia-f-jacobs\">She’s a professor emerita at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> and continues researching and publishing insights into squirrel behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, let’s start with some squirrel basics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How many squirrel species are there in the San Francisco Bay Area?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people talk about squirrels, they are usually referring to tree squirrels. The Bay Area has three types: the fox squirrel, the eastern gray squirrel and the western gray squirrel. Of those, only the western gray is native to the area. The other two are introduced. People living in the East Bay are probably seeing fox squirrels – they have an orangish, tawny tint to their fur. In Marin and down the peninsula, it’s more common to see the eastern and western grays. The western variety is bigger, which is one way to tell it apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray.jpg\" alt=\"A chubby gray squirrel takes up the entire frame while eating a nut.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The western gray squirrel is slightly bigger than the eastern gray species and is native to the San Francisco Bay Area. The western gray is often seen in Marin and down the peninsula. \u003ccite>(Nancy Strohm/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Squirrels actually evolved in North America,” Lucia Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists found a skeleton that look almost exactly like the tree squirrels we know today from about 35 million years ago. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790303002045?via%3Dihub\">They concluded that the first squirrels were arboreal\u003c/a> and that ground squirrels evolved from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eastern gray and fox squirrels co-evolved with the walnut tree family, which includes hickory trees. That’s partly why eastern North America was so thickly forested with a diverse array of trees when European colonizers first arrived and before they started clear-cutting everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it works. Trees produce nuts that fall to the ground at their roots. If they stay there, weevils often eat them, or they can’t thrive in the shade of the parent tree. That’s when the squirrels get involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Squirrels clean the nut off, and then they carry the nut away from the parent tree,” Jacobs said. “They carry the nut to an open place, and they bury it an inch down. It’s perfect; it germinates in the spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An average \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-squirrels-remember-where-they-buried-their-nuts/\">eastern gray squirrel might cache around 3,000 nuts per year\u003c/a>. If it doesn’t come back for a few of them or something happens to the squirrel, that tree thrives. And when the trees thrive, the squirrel population also thrives because there’s plenty to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-12-20/the-forgotten-history-of-how-cities-almost-killed-the-common-squirrel\">When European colonizers clear-cut the forests on the East Coast, squirrels almost went extinct\u003c/a>, Jacobs said. But, in the 1800s, some city planners reintroduced them to city parks as a way for city dwellers to have some connection to wild nature. Those parks acted as “refugia” for the squirrels, and their population recovered. Another fun fact: \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pet-squirrel-craze\">Many people kept wild squirrels as pets in the 1700s\u003c/a>. Benjamin Franklin was known for bringing squirrels to England as gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973517\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray.jpg\" alt=\"A small gray squirrel hands onto a thin tree branch, inquisitively looking around.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray-1536x1229.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is not native to the Bay Area but is commonly seen here. It is very adaptable and has thrived in urban and suburban environments. \u003ccite>(Wirestock/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What is a ground squirrel?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many different types of ground squirrels, including prairie dogs, marmots and chipmunks, as well as the local California ground squirrel. These animals are a type of squirrel, but they live in networks of underground burrows. Ground squirrels do eat nuts, but aren’t as obsessed with them as tree squirrels. \u003ca href=\"https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10507\">They’ll also eat seeds, greens, insects and other things.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are squirrels rodents, like rats?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squirrels are in the rodentia order, so yes, they are rodents. They are distant cousins to rats. Some people do consider squirrels pests, and they can carry disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where do squirrels sleep?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tree squirrels like to sleep in tree hollows or in leaf nests they make high up in the branches away from predators. They make their nests cozy with finely chewed bark and can live there even during cold winters. They also take care of their babies in these nests, which are called dreys. Jacobs said you aren’t likely to see baby squirrels because the juveniles are born blind and deaf, and they stay in the nest for quite a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not independent, really, until they’re 13 or 14 weeks old,” Jacobs said. “And they have so much to learn: they have to learn how to open nuts. They have to learn how to cache, how to move in the trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a female squirrel has a litter, she will go off on her own to raise her young in her own nest. But one cute fact about \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/77/4/1006/938223\">the eastern gray squirrel, in particular, is that they do sometimes share nests for warmth\u003c/a>. Jacobs said researchers need to study this behavior more to understand how squirrels choose their nestmates, some of whom do not seem related by blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey.jpg\" alt=\"What looks like a ball of leavess its up in the branches of a coniferous tree. The small head of a squirrel pokes out.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An eastern gray squirrel pokes its head out of its drey, a nest built high up in a tree. \u003ccite>(Sunflower Shots/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why are squirrel tails so fluffy?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squirrels use their tails for many things, including keeping warm in their nests, maintaining balance while prancing around the power lines, jumping from branch to branch and communicating. Jacobs said researchers have observed that squirrels will use their tails to show frustration. (KQED’s Deep Look program explored how squirrels show emotion with their tails in the video: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjQtJGaSpk\">Watch These Frustrated Squirrels Go Nuts!\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjQtJGaSpk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There aren’t that many mammal species that have such flexible tails,” Jacobs said. “If it’s upset or nervous, [it] will move its tail a certain way, as a social signal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do squirrels actually remember all the places they buried nuts?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, they seem to. It’s hard to control for all the variables present in the wild, but Jacobs said \u003ca href=\"https://psychology.berkeley.edu/news/fox-squirrels-use-%E2%80%98chunking%E2%80%99-organize-their-favorite-nuts\">studies of squirrels in captivity showed \u003c/a>that a squirrel would find twice as many nuts that it buried as compared to nuts another squirrel buried. That indicates that they do remember where they buried things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if they do stumble on another squirrel’s cache, they have no qualms about stealing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies on the UC Berkeley campus have also shown that squirrels value nuts differently. They prize larger nuts more, so they’ll shake the nut and measure its mass in their mouth before deciding where to cache it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you give them a random series of nuts, they will organize them as they’re caching them,” Jacobs explained. “And so at the end of the day, they’ve got the almonds over here, and the walnuts over there, and the peanuts over there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel.jpg\" alt=\"A squirrel with black coloring and a bushy tail sits on a think tree branch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1443\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel-1536x1154.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There’s a common gene mutation in the eastern gray squirrel that turns the fur black. Many of this variety can be seen on the Stanford campus and its surroundings, leading to a myth that the black fur was a result of an experiment gone wrong. That’s false! The black-colored squirrels are just eastern grays with a gene mutation. \u003ccite>(randimal/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Depending on how much they value the nut, they’ll bury them at different distances between each nut. Almonds, for example, are less highly prized than walnuts because they are smaller. So, the squirrel might bury more almonds in a smaller area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they do is they bury the walnuts more spread out so that if one squirrel finds one of their walnuts, they’re not going to immediately find their other walnuts,” Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do squirrels have distinct personalities?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s crazy because they’re not [people],” Jacobs said. “But this is a fascinating area. Certainly, you get big individual differences in temperament. And there’s a genetic component.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we might interpret as “personality” is an evolutionary tendency for diversity, Jacobs said. Some years, bold personalities might be required to survive, while in other years, having a more timid sensibility is an asset. Squirrels are born with different temperaments to make sure some survive, no matter the conditions that year. And squirrels live a long time, so the same squirrel might be living in the same yard for 10 years, which means it probably knows you and has determined if you are a threat or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are squirrels taunting your dog?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe. Jacobs said studies of animals in Africa have shown a pattern of prey animals approaching predators when they are clearly not hungry as a way to study the predator. Squirrels might be doing that with dogs on leashes or that are penned in by fences. But also: “Animals have a great sense of humor,” Jacobs said. “I wouldn’t put it past a squirrel to be teasing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How can you keep squirrels out of your birdfeeder or flowerpots?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out squirrels don’t like chili peppers. You can buy bird seed coated in chili pepper, which doesn’t bother the birds because they don’t have taste receptors, but it definitely bothers the squirrels, who do. That might do the trick. Similarly, if squirrels dig up your flowers as they look for their nuts, a little sprinkle of cayenne pepper on the soil could keep them away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, perhaps the most obvious advice, if you want to keep squirrels out of your yard, don’t feed them!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if you still want to know more about squirrels, Jacobs recommends \u003ca href=\"https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/9781/squirrels-world\">\u003cem>Squirrels of the World\u003c/em> \u003c/a>as the definitive reference on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>When it comes to squirrels, I think there are two kinds of people in this world. There are people like my husband Sam, who call them …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Price: \u003c/b>Tree rats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>They see squirrels as a nuisance, just another pest that ruins the garden. And then there are people like me who, if given the chance, would happily post up under a tree and watch the squirrels do their thing all day. Their cute little cheeks as they work over a nut. Their busy tails that flick this way and that. I am quite fond of squirrels, but my affection for them is nothing compared to that of my KQED colleague Angela Corral. Angela is the senior editor of the California Report, and she seemed like the perfect reporter to tap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> So it might have been the summer of 2020, now that I think about it. And that, of course, was Covid. So we were all home. My kids, my husband, me, my two kittens, my 90-pound dog. We’re all home all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Angela was putting peanuts out to feed the crows in her neighborhood. Which, by the way, we are not recommending. One day, she noticed someone else was interested in her offering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> Suddenly, this little squirrel started coming around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Scene sound of Angela going opening her door, saying, “Oh! Hi! Hold on.” as she sees the squirrel.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> I went and sat on the porch with my peanuts, and she would just come right up to me and I would toss them sort of in front of me, you know, and she would come get them without a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Her relationship with a little squirrel grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> And then eventually, she would take it out of my hand, and I was just tickled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Scene sound of Angela talking to the squirrel while we hear it eating a peanut – “Hi! You’re so polite.”\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Angela even gave the squirrel a name. Karla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Whimsical piano music starts\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> And in case you’re wondering, it’s Karla with a K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Years went by and Karla became part of the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>My giant dog started treating Karla as if she was like one of our pets. She didn’t get worked up or excited when Karla would come to the door. They would \u003ci>nearly \u003c/i>sniff noses on the porch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Angela was even gifted a few squirrel-sized picnic tables that Karla would post up at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> So I could sit there working. (laughing) And Karla could sit at her table eating peanuts. (laughing) And we could enjoy each other’s company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Whimsical piano music ends. Laid-back, staccato guitar begins.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Now, I know you all have stories like Angela’s, because last year we asked what you wanted to know about squirrels. I thought we would hear from a few folks, but we got more than 50 squirrel questions about everything from how they find their nuts after they’ve buried them, to whether one pesky squirrel in your yard is actually taunting your dog. So today on Big Curious, it is squirrel mania. We have lots of answers to your questions. Just ahead. I’m Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Music fades\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Many of us have noticed the playful squirrels in our yards or neighborhoods, and we have questions about these critters. KQED’s Angela Corral and I went and did some digging, har har, to find out the answers. Welcome, Angela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>Hi, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> OK, let’s start with some squirrel basics. One listener named Rita Rodriguez wants to know how many different \u003ci>species\u003c/i> of squirrels are in the Bay Area. And another listener, William, wants to know if any of them are native to our region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>OK, I’m going to start sort of broadly and then narrow it down because I think that will help. Worldwide, there are only three broad types of squirrels: tree squirrels, ground squirrels and flying squirrels. They are in the same family and are distant cousins of each other. I spoke to Lucia Jacobs about all this. She’s been studying squirrels for over 40 years and is a professor emerita at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> In the Bay Area, we’ve got three species of tree squirrels. (sound of fox squirrel) The East Bay generally has the fox squirrel, which is a has kind of a orangish, you know, tawny fur. (sound of eastern gray squirrel) And then the peninsula and Marin have the eastern gray squirrel. (sound of western gray squirrel) But then they also have the native western gray squirrel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>So the western gray squirrel is native to this area, but the other two, the fox squirrel and the eastern gray, are non-native.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Then we get to our ground squirrels. There are a lot of types of them but we may not think of them as squirrels, per se.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>So, chipmunks, prairie dogs, marmots … those are all ground squirrels. Around here you’ll likely see the \u003ci>California ground squirrel\u003c/i> … they live in colonies and build networks of burrows underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>(Sound of California ground squirrel)\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> OK, A listener named Heather Young says she’s heard squirrels often called “rodents with tails.” I mentioned earlier, my husband calls them “rats with tails.” Is that characterization fair? And how closely related to rats are squirrels?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>Well, squirrels are in the rodentia order. So, in a way, they are cousins to rats and are often considered pests that can carry disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Oh… It’s amazing how far some fur and some cute eyes really goes a long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corra: \u003c/b>Really it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> (laughing) Uh, OK, Moving on … We got a whole bunch of questions about the daily life of squirrels. You know, we often see them out there, doing their squirrel thing all alone. But sometimes you’ll see some of them hanging together. What is the social life of a squirrel like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>Well, a pretty adorable fact is that squirrels do seem to be somewhat social. The eastern gray squirrel in particular. They share nests sometimes to stay warm and seem to sort of at least “know” one another, although Lucia says we’re not sure how they choose their nest mates… and they need to do more research on the topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> What about when you see three or four squirrels chasing each other all over the place, what are they doing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>If they’re babies, they might actually be playing. But if they look mature, it’s probably a mating chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Oooo!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs: \u003c/b>Females come into heat just twice a year. And the males come in from all over, and then the female leads them on this big chase, and that’s her way of deciding who she’s going to you know, grace with her genetic material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> I’ve always wondered where squirrels sleep because I’ve never caught one snoozing. And it turns out they collect green leaves and make these huge nests high up in the branches of trees…away from predators. They line them with chewed-up bark to make them cozy…and they can live in them even when it’s really cold. These leaf nests are also where their babies are born and raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> They’re not independent, really, till they’re like 13, 14 weeks old, so they’re sticking around the nest. And they have so much to learn. They have to learn how to open nuts. They have to learn how to cache; how to move in the trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Watching squirrels move through trees is probably what I find most compelling about them. It is some serious parkour!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>It’s amazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> When we see a squirrel in a yard or park, a lot of what they’re doing is finding and burying nuts for the winter. Many of the questions listeners sent us were about the \u003ci>nuts and bolts\u003c/i> of squirrels’ nut hoarding if you will… Sean Malley wants to know if squirrels remember all the places they’ve buried something?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>That’s exactly the type of question Lucia gets fired up about because she’s been studying this squirrel behavior for years. She cautioned that it’s really hard to control for all the variables that exist in the wild, but says studies of squirrels in captivity showed that they found twice as many nuts that \u003ci>they\u003c/i> had buried as compared to nuts \u003ci>another\u003c/i> squirrel had buried. So, that indicates that yes, they do remember where they buried nuts. They treat different types of nuts differently depending on how much they value them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> My graduate student at the time, Stephanie Preston, showed that they actually shake the nut in their mouth to estimate the mass of the nut. And depending on how heavy it is, they will carry it farther away from the competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Wow, so they’re making an economic decision about the value of a nut-based on its mass … how fascinating. And I take it they like big nuts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>They like big nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> But squirrels aren’t just paying attention to a nut’s mass. They also care about the type of nut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> My other graduate student, Michael Delgado, showed the better the nut, the more time they spend. Even if you give them a random series of nuts, they will organize them as they’re caching them. And so at the end of the day, they’ve got the almonds over here, and the walnuts over there, and the peanuts over there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>And in addition to this orderly system, they actually use some stealth tactics to protect their “best nuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> They bury them at a specific density. So the distance from one almond to the next is different than the distance from one walnut to the next because a walnut is a much bigger, more valuable nut. And so you don’t want to lose that. So what they do is they bury the walnuts more spread out so that if one squirrel finds one of their walnuts, they’re not going to immediately find their other walnuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Smart! We heard from a lot of dog owners when we asked for listener squirrel questions… like this one…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>April Whitney: \u003c/b>This is April Whitney from Vallejo. My dog goes ballistic every time he sees a squirrel on my fence. Why do they return every day instead of just avoiding my yard? Are they gluttons for punishment or do they just love to create chaos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> A question I, too, have had\u003cb>.\u003c/b> The expert, Lucia, says studies of other animals have shown that they will approach a predator when they know they aren’t hungry, just to sort of study the predator. And it’s possible squirrels are doing that with dogs. But also.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> Animals have a great sense of humor. I wouldn’t put it past a squirrel to be teasing it, too.\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> So sounds like a yes, that squirrel may in fact be messing with your dog. For the fun of it…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>Yeah, absolutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> For the squirrel detractors out there, one key complaint is that they eat the birdseed you’re leaving out… If this is a problem for you, they actually make birdseed covered in red chili pepper that could do the trick!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> Birds don’t have the taste receptors, so that the birds don’t care, and the squirrels definitely do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>And if squirrels are planting nuts in your flowerpots and then digging up your flowers when they come back…Lucia recommends sprinkling some cayenne pepper on the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Ooo spicy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any other little factoids Lucia shared that grabbed you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>We haven’t talked about squirrel tails yet and why they’re so fluffy. I know listener Alice Hong wanted to know more about this. Lucia says squirrels use their tails for all kinds of things – insulation to keep them warm in the nest, you know they curl up in them, balance as they’re jumping all over the powerlines, but also they show emotion with their tails, kind of like cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> When you gave them a problem to solve that was very easy to solve, and then you suddenly made it impossible, they would get very frustrated. And you would see them changing their tail movements. But they also use it as a social signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Alright, well I now know more about squirrels than I thought I’d ever know, maybe ever want to know. Thank you for bringing us all this great information, Angela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>It was my pleasure. I feel like I understand Karla a little better now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Angela Corral is the Senior Editor of the California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s it for our squirrelmania episode – almost anyway. A few years ago we had a short piece about the black squirrels you might see roaming around, especially on the Stanford campus. Stick around after the credits to learn about them and you can keep listening for our monthly podcast trivia game, too!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco by member-supported KQED. Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale, and me, Olivia-Allen Price. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now we bring in reporter Ryan Levi who answered this question about black squirrels for Bay Curious some years ago. The question came from listener Ayal Sadone. He was at Stanford, getting his PhD in electrical engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ayal Sadone: \u003c/b>I was walking with my girlfriend, and she told me that apparently, the black squirrels in Stanford are actually a Stanford genetic experiment, run amok and that they don’t exist anywhere outside of Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> I’ve seen those black squirrels and I think I definitely did a double take the first time I saw one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ryan Levi: \u003c/b>Me too. And so I called up Cheryl Green. She’s a veterinarian and a professor at Stanford School of Medicine. And she says they get calls all the time about this myth, but it’s just not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Cheryl Green:\u003c/b> The truth really is that the black squirrel is a squirrel that is produced when these eastern gray squirrels who carry a normal gene mutation mate and their offspring grow a black coat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> So we can think of the black squirrels kind of like the redheads of the squirrel world. If both parents have the black fur gene, they can pass it on to their little ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ryan Levi:\u003c/b> Exactly. And they’re not just in Palo Alto or even just in California, Green says. They’ve been seen on the East Coast since the 17 hundreds, and they show up out here until the turn of the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> OK. But that doesn’t really explain why there are so many of them on Stanford’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ryan Levi:\u003c/b> Right. And so I asked Cheryl Green about this and she said there’s no hard scientific evidence or data about why there are so many out here. But anecdotally, it seems like the Black fur could be an evolutionary advantage. It helps them stay warmer. Some folks have said that the black squirrels are more aggressive and they have fewer predators than their non black brethren. And also it seems like the black fur might stand out a little better against our gray streets, meaning that the black squirrels are less likely to show up as roadkill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> That’s dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ryan Levi:\u003c/b> Yeah, it is. But I took the answer back to our question, Ayal, and he said in this case, he actually kind of likes the fiction a bit more than the fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ayal Sadone:\u003c/b> I think I will stick with the urban legend one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ryan Levi:\u003c/b> Even though you know the real answer, you’re going to stick with the urban legend?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ayal Sadone:\u003c/b> It’s a good story. You know, why ruin a good story?\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"You all have a lot of questions about squirrels. 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Depending on your point of view, they might be cute furry friends or “rodents with bushy tails,” just as likely to carry disease as rats or pigeons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, we asked Bay Curious listeners what they wanted to know about squirrels and got a huge response — over 50 questions about squirrel behavior, social practices, ancestry and economics. Today, we’re answering as many as we can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke to Lucia Jacobs, a cognitive scientist who has studied squirrel behavior for 40 years. \u003ca href=\"https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/lucia-f-jacobs\">She’s a professor emerita at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> and continues researching and publishing insights into squirrel behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, let’s start with some squirrel basics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How many squirrel species are there in the San Francisco Bay Area?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people talk about squirrels, they are usually referring to tree squirrels. The Bay Area has three types: the fox squirrel, the eastern gray squirrel and the western gray squirrel. Of those, only the western gray is native to the area. The other two are introduced. People living in the East Bay are probably seeing fox squirrels – they have an orangish, tawny tint to their fur. In Marin and down the peninsula, it’s more common to see the eastern and western grays. The western variety is bigger, which is one way to tell it apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray.jpg\" alt=\"A chubby gray squirrel takes up the entire frame while eating a nut.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/western-gray-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The western gray squirrel is slightly bigger than the eastern gray species and is native to the San Francisco Bay Area. The western gray is often seen in Marin and down the peninsula. \u003ccite>(Nancy Strohm/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Squirrels actually evolved in North America,” Lucia Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists found a skeleton that look almost exactly like the tree squirrels we know today from about 35 million years ago. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790303002045?via%3Dihub\">They concluded that the first squirrels were arboreal\u003c/a> and that ground squirrels evolved from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eastern gray and fox squirrels co-evolved with the walnut tree family, which includes hickory trees. That’s partly why eastern North America was so thickly forested with a diverse array of trees when European colonizers first arrived and before they started clear-cutting everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it works. Trees produce nuts that fall to the ground at their roots. If they stay there, weevils often eat them, or they can’t thrive in the shade of the parent tree. That’s when the squirrels get involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Squirrels clean the nut off, and then they carry the nut away from the parent tree,” Jacobs said. “They carry the nut to an open place, and they bury it an inch down. It’s perfect; it germinates in the spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An average \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-squirrels-remember-where-they-buried-their-nuts/\">eastern gray squirrel might cache around 3,000 nuts per year\u003c/a>. If it doesn’t come back for a few of them or something happens to the squirrel, that tree thrives. And when the trees thrive, the squirrel population also thrives because there’s plenty to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-12-20/the-forgotten-history-of-how-cities-almost-killed-the-common-squirrel\">When European colonizers clear-cut the forests on the East Coast, squirrels almost went extinct\u003c/a>, Jacobs said. But, in the 1800s, some city planners reintroduced them to city parks as a way for city dwellers to have some connection to wild nature. Those parks acted as “refugia” for the squirrels, and their population recovered. Another fun fact: \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pet-squirrel-craze\">Many people kept wild squirrels as pets in the 1700s\u003c/a>. Benjamin Franklin was known for bringing squirrels to England as gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973517\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray.jpg\" alt=\"A small gray squirrel hands onto a thin tree branch, inquisitively looking around.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-gray-1536x1229.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is not native to the Bay Area but is commonly seen here. It is very adaptable and has thrived in urban and suburban environments. \u003ccite>(Wirestock/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What is a ground squirrel?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many different types of ground squirrels, including prairie dogs, marmots and chipmunks, as well as the local California ground squirrel. These animals are a type of squirrel, but they live in networks of underground burrows. Ground squirrels do eat nuts, but aren’t as obsessed with them as tree squirrels. \u003ca href=\"https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10507\">They’ll also eat seeds, greens, insects and other things.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are squirrels rodents, like rats?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squirrels are in the rodentia order, so yes, they are rodents. They are distant cousins to rats. Some people do consider squirrels pests, and they can carry disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where do squirrels sleep?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tree squirrels like to sleep in tree hollows or in leaf nests they make high up in the branches away from predators. They make their nests cozy with finely chewed bark and can live there even during cold winters. They also take care of their babies in these nests, which are called dreys. Jacobs said you aren’t likely to see baby squirrels because the juveniles are born blind and deaf, and they stay in the nest for quite a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not independent, really, until they’re 13 or 14 weeks old,” Jacobs said. “And they have so much to learn: they have to learn how to open nuts. They have to learn how to cache, how to move in the trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a female squirrel has a litter, she will go off on her own to raise her young in her own nest. But one cute fact about \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/77/4/1006/938223\">the eastern gray squirrel, in particular, is that they do sometimes share nests for warmth\u003c/a>. Jacobs said researchers need to study this behavior more to understand how squirrels choose their nestmates, some of whom do not seem related by blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey.jpg\" alt=\"What looks like a ball of leavess its up in the branches of a coniferous tree. The small head of a squirrel pokes out.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/eastern-drey-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An eastern gray squirrel pokes its head out of its drey, a nest built high up in a tree. \u003ccite>(Sunflower Shots/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why are squirrel tails so fluffy?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squirrels use their tails for many things, including keeping warm in their nests, maintaining balance while prancing around the power lines, jumping from branch to branch and communicating. Jacobs said researchers have observed that squirrels will use their tails to show frustration. (KQED’s Deep Look program explored how squirrels show emotion with their tails in the video: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjQtJGaSpk\">Watch These Frustrated Squirrels Go Nuts!\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZUjQtJGaSpk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZUjQtJGaSpk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“There aren’t that many mammal species that have such flexible tails,” Jacobs said. “If it’s upset or nervous, [it] will move its tail a certain way, as a social signal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do squirrels actually remember all the places they buried nuts?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, they seem to. It’s hard to control for all the variables present in the wild, but Jacobs said \u003ca href=\"https://psychology.berkeley.edu/news/fox-squirrels-use-%E2%80%98chunking%E2%80%99-organize-their-favorite-nuts\">studies of squirrels in captivity showed \u003c/a>that a squirrel would find twice as many nuts that it buried as compared to nuts another squirrel buried. That indicates that they do remember where they buried things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if they do stumble on another squirrel’s cache, they have no qualms about stealing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies on the UC Berkeley campus have also shown that squirrels value nuts differently. They prize larger nuts more, so they’ll shake the nut and measure its mass in their mouth before deciding where to cache it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you give them a random series of nuts, they will organize them as they’re caching them,” Jacobs explained. “And so at the end of the day, they’ve got the almonds over here, and the walnuts over there, and the peanuts over there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel.jpg\" alt=\"A squirrel with black coloring and a bushy tail sits on a think tree branch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1443\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/black-eastern-gray-squirrel-1536x1154.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There’s a common gene mutation in the eastern gray squirrel that turns the fur black. Many of this variety can be seen on the Stanford campus and its surroundings, leading to a myth that the black fur was a result of an experiment gone wrong. That’s false! The black-colored squirrels are just eastern grays with a gene mutation. \u003ccite>(randimal/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Depending on how much they value the nut, they’ll bury them at different distances between each nut. Almonds, for example, are less highly prized than walnuts because they are smaller. So, the squirrel might bury more almonds in a smaller area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they do is they bury the walnuts more spread out so that if one squirrel finds one of their walnuts, they’re not going to immediately find their other walnuts,” Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do squirrels have distinct personalities?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s crazy because they’re not [people],” Jacobs said. “But this is a fascinating area. Certainly, you get big individual differences in temperament. And there’s a genetic component.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we might interpret as “personality” is an evolutionary tendency for diversity, Jacobs said. Some years, bold personalities might be required to survive, while in other years, having a more timid sensibility is an asset. Squirrels are born with different temperaments to make sure some survive, no matter the conditions that year. And squirrels live a long time, so the same squirrel might be living in the same yard for 10 years, which means it probably knows you and has determined if you are a threat or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are squirrels taunting your dog?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe. Jacobs said studies of animals in Africa have shown a pattern of prey animals approaching predators when they are clearly not hungry as a way to study the predator. Squirrels might be doing that with dogs on leashes or that are penned in by fences. But also: “Animals have a great sense of humor,” Jacobs said. “I wouldn’t put it past a squirrel to be teasing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How can you keep squirrels out of your birdfeeder or flowerpots?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out squirrels don’t like chili peppers. You can buy bird seed coated in chili pepper, which doesn’t bother the birds because they don’t have taste receptors, but it definitely bothers the squirrels, who do. That might do the trick. Similarly, if squirrels dig up your flowers as they look for their nuts, a little sprinkle of cayenne pepper on the soil could keep them away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, perhaps the most obvious advice, if you want to keep squirrels out of your yard, don’t feed them!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if you still want to know more about squirrels, Jacobs recommends \u003ca href=\"https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/9781/squirrels-world\">\u003cem>Squirrels of the World\u003c/em> \u003c/a>as the definitive reference on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>When it comes to squirrels, I think there are two kinds of people in this world. There are people like my husband Sam, who call them …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Price: \u003c/b>Tree rats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>They see squirrels as a nuisance, just another pest that ruins the garden. And then there are people like me who, if given the chance, would happily post up under a tree and watch the squirrels do their thing all day. Their cute little cheeks as they work over a nut. Their busy tails that flick this way and that. I am quite fond of squirrels, but my affection for them is nothing compared to that of my KQED colleague Angela Corral. Angela is the senior editor of the California Report, and she seemed like the perfect reporter to tap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> So it might have been the summer of 2020, now that I think about it. And that, of course, was Covid. So we were all home. My kids, my husband, me, my two kittens, my 90-pound dog. We’re all home all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Angela was putting peanuts out to feed the crows in her neighborhood. Which, by the way, we are not recommending. One day, she noticed someone else was interested in her offering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> Suddenly, this little squirrel started coming around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Scene sound of Angela going opening her door, saying, “Oh! Hi! Hold on.” as she sees the squirrel.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> I went and sat on the porch with my peanuts, and she would just come right up to me and I would toss them sort of in front of me, you know, and she would come get them without a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Her relationship with a little squirrel grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> And then eventually, she would take it out of my hand, and I was just tickled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Scene sound of Angela talking to the squirrel while we hear it eating a peanut – “Hi! You’re so polite.”\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Angela even gave the squirrel a name. Karla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Whimsical piano music starts\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> And in case you’re wondering, it’s Karla with a K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Years went by and Karla became part of the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>My giant dog started treating Karla as if she was like one of our pets. She didn’t get worked up or excited when Karla would come to the door. They would \u003ci>nearly \u003c/i>sniff noses on the porch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Angela was even gifted a few squirrel-sized picnic tables that Karla would post up at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> So I could sit there working. (laughing) And Karla could sit at her table eating peanuts. (laughing) And we could enjoy each other’s company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Whimsical piano music ends. Laid-back, staccato guitar begins.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Now, I know you all have stories like Angela’s, because last year we asked what you wanted to know about squirrels. I thought we would hear from a few folks, but we got more than 50 squirrel questions about everything from how they find their nuts after they’ve buried them, to whether one pesky squirrel in your yard is actually taunting your dog. So today on Big Curious, it is squirrel mania. We have lots of answers to your questions. Just ahead. I’m Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Music fades\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Many of us have noticed the playful squirrels in our yards or neighborhoods, and we have questions about these critters. KQED’s Angela Corral and I went and did some digging, har har, to find out the answers. Welcome, Angela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>Hi, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> OK, let’s start with some squirrel basics. One listener named Rita Rodriguez wants to know how many different \u003ci>species\u003c/i> of squirrels are in the Bay Area. And another listener, William, wants to know if any of them are native to our region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>OK, I’m going to start sort of broadly and then narrow it down because I think that will help. Worldwide, there are only three broad types of squirrels: tree squirrels, ground squirrels and flying squirrels. They are in the same family and are distant cousins of each other. I spoke to Lucia Jacobs about all this. She’s been studying squirrels for over 40 years and is a professor emerita at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> In the Bay Area, we’ve got three species of tree squirrels. (sound of fox squirrel) The East Bay generally has the fox squirrel, which is a has kind of a orangish, you know, tawny fur. (sound of eastern gray squirrel) And then the peninsula and Marin have the eastern gray squirrel. (sound of western gray squirrel) But then they also have the native western gray squirrel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>So the western gray squirrel is native to this area, but the other two, the fox squirrel and the eastern gray, are non-native.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Then we get to our ground squirrels. There are a lot of types of them but we may not think of them as squirrels, per se.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>So, chipmunks, prairie dogs, marmots … those are all ground squirrels. Around here you’ll likely see the \u003ci>California ground squirrel\u003c/i> … they live in colonies and build networks of burrows underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>(Sound of California ground squirrel)\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> OK, A listener named Heather Young says she’s heard squirrels often called “rodents with tails.” I mentioned earlier, my husband calls them “rats with tails.” Is that characterization fair? And how closely related to rats are squirrels?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>Well, squirrels are in the rodentia order. So, in a way, they are cousins to rats and are often considered pests that can carry disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Oh… It’s amazing how far some fur and some cute eyes really goes a long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corra: \u003c/b>Really it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> (laughing) Uh, OK, Moving on … We got a whole bunch of questions about the daily life of squirrels. You know, we often see them out there, doing their squirrel thing all alone. But sometimes you’ll see some of them hanging together. What is the social life of a squirrel like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>Well, a pretty adorable fact is that squirrels do seem to be somewhat social. The eastern gray squirrel in particular. They share nests sometimes to stay warm and seem to sort of at least “know” one another, although Lucia says we’re not sure how they choose their nest mates… and they need to do more research on the topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> What about when you see three or four squirrels chasing each other all over the place, what are they doing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>If they’re babies, they might actually be playing. But if they look mature, it’s probably a mating chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Oooo!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs: \u003c/b>Females come into heat just twice a year. And the males come in from all over, and then the female leads them on this big chase, and that’s her way of deciding who she’s going to you know, grace with her genetic material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> I’ve always wondered where squirrels sleep because I’ve never caught one snoozing. And it turns out they collect green leaves and make these huge nests high up in the branches of trees…away from predators. They line them with chewed-up bark to make them cozy…and they can live in them even when it’s really cold. These leaf nests are also where their babies are born and raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> They’re not independent, really, till they’re like 13, 14 weeks old, so they’re sticking around the nest. And they have so much to learn. They have to learn how to open nuts. They have to learn how to cache; how to move in the trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Watching squirrels move through trees is probably what I find most compelling about them. It is some serious parkour!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>It’s amazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> When we see a squirrel in a yard or park, a lot of what they’re doing is finding and burying nuts for the winter. Many of the questions listeners sent us were about the \u003ci>nuts and bolts\u003c/i> of squirrels’ nut hoarding if you will… Sean Malley wants to know if squirrels remember all the places they’ve buried something?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>That’s exactly the type of question Lucia gets fired up about because she’s been studying this squirrel behavior for years. She cautioned that it’s really hard to control for all the variables that exist in the wild, but says studies of squirrels in captivity showed that they found twice as many nuts that \u003ci>they\u003c/i> had buried as compared to nuts \u003ci>another\u003c/i> squirrel had buried. So, that indicates that yes, they do remember where they buried nuts. They treat different types of nuts differently depending on how much they value them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> My graduate student at the time, Stephanie Preston, showed that they actually shake the nut in their mouth to estimate the mass of the nut. And depending on how heavy it is, they will carry it farther away from the competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Wow, so they’re making an economic decision about the value of a nut-based on its mass … how fascinating. And I take it they like big nuts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>They like big nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> But squirrels aren’t just paying attention to a nut’s mass. They also care about the type of nut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> My other graduate student, Michael Delgado, showed the better the nut, the more time they spend. Even if you give them a random series of nuts, they will organize them as they’re caching them. And so at the end of the day, they’ve got the almonds over here, and the walnuts over there, and the peanuts over there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>And in addition to this orderly system, they actually use some stealth tactics to protect their “best nuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> They bury them at a specific density. So the distance from one almond to the next is different than the distance from one walnut to the next because a walnut is a much bigger, more valuable nut. And so you don’t want to lose that. So what they do is they bury the walnuts more spread out so that if one squirrel finds one of their walnuts, they’re not going to immediately find their other walnuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Smart! We heard from a lot of dog owners when we asked for listener squirrel questions… like this one…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>April Whitney: \u003c/b>This is April Whitney from Vallejo. My dog goes ballistic every time he sees a squirrel on my fence. Why do they return every day instead of just avoiding my yard? Are they gluttons for punishment or do they just love to create chaos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral:\u003c/b> A question I, too, have had\u003cb>.\u003c/b> The expert, Lucia, says studies of other animals have shown that they will approach a predator when they know they aren’t hungry, just to sort of study the predator. And it’s possible squirrels are doing that with dogs. But also.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> Animals have a great sense of humor. I wouldn’t put it past a squirrel to be teasing it, too.\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> So sounds like a yes, that squirrel may in fact be messing with your dog. For the fun of it…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>Yeah, absolutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> For the squirrel detractors out there, one key complaint is that they eat the birdseed you’re leaving out… If this is a problem for you, they actually make birdseed covered in red chili pepper that could do the trick!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> Birds don’t have the taste receptors, so that the birds don’t care, and the squirrels definitely do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>And if squirrels are planting nuts in your flowerpots and then digging up your flowers when they come back…Lucia recommends sprinkling some cayenne pepper on the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Ooo spicy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any other little factoids Lucia shared that grabbed you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>We haven’t talked about squirrel tails yet and why they’re so fluffy. I know listener Alice Hong wanted to know more about this. Lucia says squirrels use their tails for all kinds of things – insulation to keep them warm in the nest, you know they curl up in them, balance as they’re jumping all over the powerlines, but also they show emotion with their tails, kind of like cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lucia Jacobs:\u003c/b> When you gave them a problem to solve that was very easy to solve, and then you suddenly made it impossible, they would get very frustrated. And you would see them changing their tail movements. But they also use it as a social signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Alright, well I now know more about squirrels than I thought I’d ever know, maybe ever want to know. Thank you for bringing us all this great information, Angela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Angela Corral: \u003c/b>It was my pleasure. I feel like I understand Karla a little better now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Angela Corral is the Senior Editor of the California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s it for our squirrelmania episode – almost anyway. A few years ago we had a short piece about the black squirrels you might see roaming around, especially on the Stanford campus. Stick around after the credits to learn about them and you can keep listening for our monthly podcast trivia game, too!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco by member-supported KQED. Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale, and me, Olivia-Allen Price. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now we bring in reporter Ryan Levi who answered this question about black squirrels for Bay Curious some years ago. The question came from listener Ayal Sadone. He was at Stanford, getting his PhD in electrical engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ayal Sadone: \u003c/b>I was walking with my girlfriend, and she told me that apparently, the black squirrels in Stanford are actually a Stanford genetic experiment, run amok and that they don’t exist anywhere outside of Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> I’ve seen those black squirrels and I think I definitely did a double take the first time I saw one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ryan Levi: \u003c/b>Me too. And so I called up Cheryl Green. She’s a veterinarian and a professor at Stanford School of Medicine. And she says they get calls all the time about this myth, but it’s just not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Cheryl Green:\u003c/b> The truth really is that the black squirrel is a squirrel that is produced when these eastern gray squirrels who carry a normal gene mutation mate and their offspring grow a black coat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> So we can think of the black squirrels kind of like the redheads of the squirrel world. If both parents have the black fur gene, they can pass it on to their little ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ryan Levi:\u003c/b> Exactly. And they’re not just in Palo Alto or even just in California, Green says. They’ve been seen on the East Coast since the 17 hundreds, and they show up out here until the turn of the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> OK. But that doesn’t really explain why there are so many of them on Stanford’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ryan Levi:\u003c/b> Right. And so I asked Cheryl Green about this and she said there’s no hard scientific evidence or data about why there are so many out here. But anecdotally, it seems like the Black fur could be an evolutionary advantage. It helps them stay warmer. Some folks have said that the black squirrels are more aggressive and they have fewer predators than their non black brethren. And also it seems like the black fur might stand out a little better against our gray streets, meaning that the black squirrels are less likely to show up as roadkill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> That’s dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ryan Levi:\u003c/b> Yeah, it is. But I took the answer back to our question, Ayal, and he said in this case, he actually kind of likes the fiction a bit more than the fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ayal Sadone:\u003c/b> I think I will stick with the urban legend one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ryan Levi:\u003c/b> Even though you know the real answer, you’re going to stick with the urban legend?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ayal Sadone:\u003c/b> It’s a good story. You know, why ruin a good story?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11973510/yes-that-squirrel-might-be-taunting-your-dog-and-more-squirrel-facts","authors":["234"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_28250"],"tags":["news_32382","news_3901"],"featImg":"news_11973513","label":"source_news_11973510"},"news_10771866":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10771866","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10771866","score":null,"sort":[1448611578000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"like-it-or-not-wild-turkeys-proliferate-in-east-bay","title":"Like It or Not, Wild Turkeys Proliferate in East Bay","publishDate":1448611578,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>For some people in the Bay Area, the guest of honor usually found on top of the Thanksgiving table has become a part of everyday life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All you have to do is take a drive or walk through some of the more suburban and rural areas of the East Bay, and it might seem like wild turkeys are everywhere. Whether in local parks, on neighborhood front lawns or wandering in disorganized groups along local roads, sightings of the rustic, colorful big birds have become a part of the daily scenery for many around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're unwanted scenery for some, like Walnut Creek resident Niki DeSilva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re a nuisance,” says DeSilva. “They get in the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An avid cyclist, DeSilva is less than nostalgic for the idyllic scenery of old when a gang of 30-pound birds with very little flying talent cross her bike path -- and stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10772094\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10772094\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-800x756.jpg\" alt=\"KQED's Carly Severn spotted this fella in Berkeley while on her way to work, adding a whole new dynamic to casual carpooling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-800x756.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-400x378.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-1440x1361.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-1180x1115.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-960x908.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED's Carly Severn spotted this fella in Berkeley while on her way to work, adding a whole new dynamic to casual carpooling. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She admits it. She hates these birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The turkeys just like to park their rear ends in the middle of the trail. And short of me running them over with my bicycle...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her voice trails off. But it doesn’t take too much imagination to guess what DeSilva may be thinking. She won’t do it. But she’s thinking it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More because I don’t want to clean up their feathers or their dead carcasses off my bike wheels,” DeSilva admits with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment shared by others. Social boundaries are not part of the wild turkeys' basic priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s going on here? Where did this wild bird come from and why is it on your front lawn?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife biologist Joseph DiDonato has been in the Bay Area for more than 20 years. He says Meleagris gallopavo, better known as the California turkey, was actually invited here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the '60s and '70s, the Fish and Game Department decided to increase the amount of turkeys for the sportsman opportunities,” says DiDonato, “and introduced them widely across the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now places like the Lafayette Reservoir are filled with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They arrived probably around the year 2000. It was creating quite a stir,” recalls EBMUD park ranger Tom Brackett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was at the East Bay reservoir when the first two arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were talking about the turkeys, and have you seen the turkeys today, and do you know where they are?” Brackett says with a laugh. “Well, those two turkeys had 10 or 12 turkeys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t stop at the reservoir’s edge. DiDonato confirms what has become an obvious fact for many Bay area residents. These turkeys have actually moved into our habitat -- our neighborhoods, streets, parks and school grounds -- and love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CityLab/status/665639620072374272\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SovernNation/status/655459073098317824\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ManeMessage/status/656973048373841920\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They love our golf courses. They love our lawns. They love our swim beaches. And they love our neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the population of wild turkeys continues to explode, solutions to reduce their number have been considered. But controlling the growth of these rambunctious, gobbling new neighbors isn’t as easy as it seems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiDonato says the turkeys are always one step ahead of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to control turkeys via hunting, you have to be able to hunt them on a spot that’s available to hunting,” reasons DiDonato. “Most of the areas where you see turkeys -- they’re in the city, in recreational areas -- so you don’t have the opportunity for a sportsman to come in and hunt turkeys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a strategy to be admired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the truth is, many have expressed nothing but love for the loud, slow-moving, 3-foot-tall birds with sharp talons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like turkeys,” says DiDonato. “I like their inquisitive nature. Their kind of odd look. They’re very beautiful and colorful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like cyclist DeSilva, have another point of view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only good turkey is a dead turkey on my table on Thanksgiving Day.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'They love our golf courses. They love our lawns. They love our swim beaches. And they love our neighborhoods.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1561502932,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":742},"headData":{"title":"Like It or Not, Wild Turkeys Proliferate in East Bay | KQED","description":"'They love our golf courses. They love our lawns. They love our swim beaches. 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Whether in local parks, on neighborhood front lawns or wandering in disorganized groups along local roads, sightings of the rustic, colorful big birds have become a part of the daily scenery for many around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're unwanted scenery for some, like Walnut Creek resident Niki DeSilva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re a nuisance,” says DeSilva. “They get in the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An avid cyclist, DeSilva is less than nostalgic for the idyllic scenery of old when a gang of 30-pound birds with very little flying talent cross her bike path -- and stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10772094\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10772094\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-800x756.jpg\" alt=\"KQED's Carly Severn spotted this fella in Berkeley while on her way to work, adding a whole new dynamic to casual carpooling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-800x756.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-400x378.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-1440x1361.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-1180x1115.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-960x908.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED's Carly Severn spotted this fella in Berkeley while on her way to work, adding a whole new dynamic to casual carpooling. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She admits it. She hates these birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The turkeys just like to park their rear ends in the middle of the trail. And short of me running them over with my bicycle...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her voice trails off. But it doesn’t take too much imagination to guess what DeSilva may be thinking. She won’t do it. But she’s thinking it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More because I don’t want to clean up their feathers or their dead carcasses off my bike wheels,” DeSilva admits with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment shared by others. Social boundaries are not part of the wild turkeys' basic priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s going on here? Where did this wild bird come from and why is it on your front lawn?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife biologist Joseph DiDonato has been in the Bay Area for more than 20 years. He says Meleagris gallopavo, better known as the California turkey, was actually invited here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the '60s and '70s, the Fish and Game Department decided to increase the amount of turkeys for the sportsman opportunities,” says DiDonato, “and introduced them widely across the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now places like the Lafayette Reservoir are filled with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They arrived probably around the year 2000. It was creating quite a stir,” recalls EBMUD park ranger Tom Brackett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was at the East Bay reservoir when the first two arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were talking about the turkeys, and have you seen the turkeys today, and do you know where they are?” Brackett says with a laugh. “Well, those two turkeys had 10 or 12 turkeys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t stop at the reservoir’s edge. DiDonato confirms what has become an obvious fact for many Bay area residents. These turkeys have actually moved into our habitat -- our neighborhoods, streets, parks and school grounds -- and love it.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"665639620072374272"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"655459073098317824"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"656973048373841920"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“They love our golf courses. They love our lawns. They love our swim beaches. And they love our neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the population of wild turkeys continues to explode, solutions to reduce their number have been considered. But controlling the growth of these rambunctious, gobbling new neighbors isn’t as easy as it seems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiDonato says the turkeys are always one step ahead of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to control turkeys via hunting, you have to be able to hunt them on a spot that’s available to hunting,” reasons DiDonato. “Most of the areas where you see turkeys -- they’re in the city, in recreational areas -- so you don’t have the opportunity for a sportsman to come in and hunt turkeys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a strategy to be admired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the truth is, many have expressed nothing but love for the loud, slow-moving, 3-foot-tall birds with sharp talons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like turkeys,” says DiDonato. “I like their inquisitive nature. Their kind of odd look. They’re very beautiful and colorful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like cyclist DeSilva, have another point of view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only good turkey is a dead turkey on my table on Thanksgiving Day.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10771866/like-it-or-not-wild-turkeys-proliferate-in-east-bay","authors":["byline_news_10771866"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906"],"tags":["news_18352","news_17286","news_293","news_17041","news_292","news_3901","news_1421"],"featImg":"news_10772090","label":"news_72"},"news_10666076":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10666076","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10666076","score":null,"sort":[1443358811000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"deadly-skin-disease-threatens-endangered-kit-foxes-in-bakersfield","title":"Deadly Skin Disease Threatens Endangered Kit Foxes in Bakersfield","publishDate":1443358811,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The endangered San Joaquin kit fox has an unlikely home in California’s country music capital. No, these bushy-tailed creatures don’t hang out in the honky-tonks in Bakersfield, but they do find plenty of other places to make their dens. Every golf course in town has a family of kit foxes. Industrial parks and school campuses are also popular spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, they’re all over Bakersfield,” says Alan Paradise, principal of North High School. He’s seen many a fox family peering out of dens near the school’s baseball field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225594796\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll know that it’s an active den when you see bones and wrappings around the outside,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food wrappings, that is. These small nocturnal foxes will eat junk food and they’ve been known to dumpster-dive. But they also find plenty of marmots, ground squirrels and insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise says he sees them everywhere. “They seem to do pretty well in Bakersfield,” he says. “They like it here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, they’ve been around for decades. As Bakersfield grew and encroached on their natural habitat, they adapted. Biologists estimate there could be as many as 400 foxes living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10697084\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10697084\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"A kit fox sniffs a trap after being released. She was treated on-site with a topical insecticide for mange.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-400x238.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-1440x856.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-960x571.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kit fox sniffs a trap after being released. She was treated on-site with a topical insecticide for mange. \u003ccite>(Tory Westall/Endangered Species Recovery Program, CSU Stanislaus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And since the drought, the Bakersfield kit foxes make up the most stable population of this endangered animal. The numbers are declining in wilder areas like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/nlcs/Carrizo_Plain_NM.html\">Carrizo Plain National Monument\u003c/a>, where kit foxes are having trouble finding enough food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals take pride in the kit foxes, but sometimes there are conflicts, says California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Victoria Monroe. She educates people on how to coexist with a protected species that is curious and playful, but skittish around humans. Today, she’s fielding a question from a man who says his neighbor tampered with a kit fox den by shoveling dirt into the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe checks the den, which is next to a driveway, and notices tiny paw prints in the sand. She says the kit fox has already started mending the hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re notoriously intelligent,” Monroe says. “Their behavior is very plastic. And they can change their behaviors in response to human activity to exploit new environments and to really thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now these urban foxes are facing a problem they can’t outwit -- a deadly and highly infectious skin disease called mange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because this is such a high-density population, the disease is spreading pretty rapidly,” says Brian Cypher, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://esrp.csustan.edu/\">Endangered Species Recovery Program \u003c/a>at CSU Stanislaus. “It could spread throughout the entire [urban] population and potentially kill them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because the drought has already caused a precipitous drop in the numbers of San Joaquin kit foxes out in the wild, this is especially bad news for an endangered animal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cypher says mange, which is caused by mites, has never been seen in kit foxes. It appears to affect only the foxes in Bakersfield, not in the wilder areas. “It seems like in the natural lands, the density is too low to carry the disease,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diseased foxes lose their fur and scratch so much they get wounds on their skin. Cypher says dogs can usually survive mange, but it’s fatal for kit foxes unless it’s treated. If the mange goes untreated, the kit fox will likely die within a few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an urgent situation, so Cypher and his team are trying to tackle the problem by trapping and treating as many kit foxes as possible. So far this year, they’ve treated about 50 kit foxes for mange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10697086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10697086 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"This male kit fox was hospitalized for four weeks at the California Living Museum. This photo was taken before he was released.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-800x636.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-400x318.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-1440x1145.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-1180x938.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-960x763.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This male kit fox was hospitalized four weeks at the California Living Museum. This photo was taken before he was released. \u003ccite>(Erica Kelly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not sure if we can stop it,” Cypher says. “We’re going to give it our best shot. We’re hoping that, if nothing else, we can protect pockets of foxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cypher and biologist Tory Westall set traps several nights a week and check them early in the mornings. They treat the foxes with a topical insecticide and then release them. If the fox is really sick, they’ll take it to a wildlife rehabilitation facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this warm summer morning, Cypher and his team are checking traps in southeast Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing here,” says Westall. The traps at an elementary school are empty. The team then heads to a nearby industrial site. But again, no luck. They’re hoping to find one fox in particular -- a very sick one they've seen in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably around here, and for whatever reason, it doesn’t want to go into the traps,” says Westall. “We’ve put in a lot of nights here, and it usually only takes one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve set up cameras to survey any sick animals in the area. They use cat food as bait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also use a commercial lure called canine call,” Cypher says. “And it’s got all sorts of nasty stuff in it. Skunk glands, I’m not sure what all else. But the foxes just can’t resist it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most mornings, the team has no trouble catching sick foxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cypher says humans don’t need to worry about getting mange. Mites don’t like humans. And as long as dog owners take care of their pets by treating them for ticks and fleas, the dogs should be fine, too, Cypher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Cypher and his team are waiting for funding to try a new plan typically reserved for dogs: putting collars on the foxes that will kill the mites. And if that doesn’t work, they may try applying insecticides directly to the dens -- anything to protect these endangered San Joaquin kit foxes that have made a home in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mange, which is caused by mites, has never before been seen in these bushy-tailed creatures.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1443220318,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1091},"headData":{"title":"Deadly Skin Disease Threatens Endangered Kit Foxes in Bakersfield | KQED","description":"Mange, which is caused by mites, has never before been seen in these bushy-tailed creatures.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10666076 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10666076","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/27/deadly-skin-disease-threatens-endangered-kit-foxes-in-bakersfield/","disqusTitle":"Deadly Skin Disease Threatens Endangered Kit Foxes in Bakersfield","path":"/news/10666076/deadly-skin-disease-threatens-endangered-kit-foxes-in-bakersfield","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The endangered San Joaquin kit fox has an unlikely home in California’s country music capital. No, these bushy-tailed creatures don’t hang out in the honky-tonks in Bakersfield, but they do find plenty of other places to make their dens. Every golf course in town has a family of kit foxes. Industrial parks and school campuses are also popular spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, they’re all over Bakersfield,” says Alan Paradise, principal of North High School. He’s seen many a fox family peering out of dens near the school’s baseball field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225594796&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225594796'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll know that it’s an active den when you see bones and wrappings around the outside,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food wrappings, that is. These small nocturnal foxes will eat junk food and they’ve been known to dumpster-dive. But they also find plenty of marmots, ground squirrels and insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise says he sees them everywhere. “They seem to do pretty well in Bakersfield,” he says. “They like it here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, they’ve been around for decades. As Bakersfield grew and encroached on their natural habitat, they adapted. Biologists estimate there could be as many as 400 foxes living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10697084\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10697084\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"A kit fox sniffs a trap after being released. She was treated on-site with a topical insecticide for mange.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-400x238.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-1440x856.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-960x571.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kit fox sniffs a trap after being released. She was treated on-site with a topical insecticide for mange. \u003ccite>(Tory Westall/Endangered Species Recovery Program, CSU Stanislaus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And since the drought, the Bakersfield kit foxes make up the most stable population of this endangered animal. The numbers are declining in wilder areas like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/nlcs/Carrizo_Plain_NM.html\">Carrizo Plain National Monument\u003c/a>, where kit foxes are having trouble finding enough food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals take pride in the kit foxes, but sometimes there are conflicts, says California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Victoria Monroe. She educates people on how to coexist with a protected species that is curious and playful, but skittish around humans. Today, she’s fielding a question from a man who says his neighbor tampered with a kit fox den by shoveling dirt into the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe checks the den, which is next to a driveway, and notices tiny paw prints in the sand. She says the kit fox has already started mending the hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re notoriously intelligent,” Monroe says. “Their behavior is very plastic. And they can change their behaviors in response to human activity to exploit new environments and to really thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now these urban foxes are facing a problem they can’t outwit -- a deadly and highly infectious skin disease called mange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because this is such a high-density population, the disease is spreading pretty rapidly,” says Brian Cypher, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://esrp.csustan.edu/\">Endangered Species Recovery Program \u003c/a>at CSU Stanislaus. “It could spread throughout the entire [urban] population and potentially kill them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because the drought has already caused a precipitous drop in the numbers of San Joaquin kit foxes out in the wild, this is especially bad news for an endangered animal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cypher says mange, which is caused by mites, has never been seen in kit foxes. It appears to affect only the foxes in Bakersfield, not in the wilder areas. “It seems like in the natural lands, the density is too low to carry the disease,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diseased foxes lose their fur and scratch so much they get wounds on their skin. Cypher says dogs can usually survive mange, but it’s fatal for kit foxes unless it’s treated. If the mange goes untreated, the kit fox will likely die within a few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an urgent situation, so Cypher and his team are trying to tackle the problem by trapping and treating as many kit foxes as possible. So far this year, they’ve treated about 50 kit foxes for mange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10697086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10697086 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"This male kit fox was hospitalized for four weeks at the California Living Museum. This photo was taken before he was released.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-800x636.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-400x318.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-1440x1145.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-1180x938.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-960x763.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This male kit fox was hospitalized four weeks at the California Living Museum. This photo was taken before he was released. \u003ccite>(Erica Kelly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not sure if we can stop it,” Cypher says. “We’re going to give it our best shot. We’re hoping that, if nothing else, we can protect pockets of foxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cypher and biologist Tory Westall set traps several nights a week and check them early in the mornings. They treat the foxes with a topical insecticide and then release them. If the fox is really sick, they’ll take it to a wildlife rehabilitation facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this warm summer morning, Cypher and his team are checking traps in southeast Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing here,” says Westall. The traps at an elementary school are empty. The team then heads to a nearby industrial site. But again, no luck. They’re hoping to find one fox in particular -- a very sick one they've seen in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably around here, and for whatever reason, it doesn’t want to go into the traps,” says Westall. “We’ve put in a lot of nights here, and it usually only takes one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve set up cameras to survey any sick animals in the area. They use cat food as bait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also use a commercial lure called canine call,” Cypher says. “And it’s got all sorts of nasty stuff in it. Skunk glands, I’m not sure what all else. But the foxes just can’t resist it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most mornings, the team has no trouble catching sick foxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cypher says humans don’t need to worry about getting mange. Mites don’t like humans. And as long as dog owners take care of their pets by treating them for ticks and fleas, the dogs should be fine, too, Cypher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Cypher and his team are waiting for funding to try a new plan typically reserved for dogs: putting collars on the foxes that will kill the mites. And if that doesn’t work, they may try applying insecticides directly to the dens -- anything to protect these endangered San Joaquin kit foxes that have made a home in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10666076/deadly-skin-disease-threatens-endangered-kit-foxes-in-bakersfield","authors":["208"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18132","news_5563","news_18245","news_17286","news_17041","news_3901"],"featImg":"news_10697039","label":"news_72"},"news_122786":{"type":"posts","id":"news_122786","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"122786","score":null,"sort":[1389036605000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"berkeley-wildlife-burrowing-owls-return-to-waterfront-park","title":"Berkeley Wildlife: Burrowing Owls Return to Waterfront Park","publishDate":1389036605,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/burrowing-owl.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-122787\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/burrowing-owl-640x370.png\" alt=\"Early morning visitors to Cesar Chavez Park say they've seen burrowing owls for the past month. (Alex Madonik / Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early morning visitors to Cesar Chavez Park say they've seen burrowing owls for the past month. (Alex Madonik / Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tracey Taylor\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burrowing owls that make their home at \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=56000%20\">César Chávez Park\u003c/a> on the Berkeley Marina every year are back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Hickey, who works out in the predawn hours most mornings at the park, says he has noticed a pair of the birds there for at least the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They sit right on the edge of the path perhaps three feet away. They always seem to flank the edge of the protected corner area,” he said. “They are quite small. They look at me but I say nothing and I keep moving. I think they realize I don’t want to mess with them. Or they are dangerously blasé!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/burrowing-owl2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-122789\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/burrowing-owl2-640x372.png\" alt=\"(Alex Madonik / Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Alex Madonik / Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Western burrowing owls have been designated a “species of special concern” by the state of California, as their population has been declining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help protect them, the city of Berkeley collaborated with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/\">Golden Gate Audubon Society\u003c/a> and erected temporary fencing in 2009 at César Chávez Park to keep dogs and people out of the owls’ preferred roosting area along the shore. Docents are available at designated times to talk to visitors about the owls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owls can usually be found at the Marina, October through early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Diminutive but not particularly shy, birds draw enthusiasts to city's César Chávez Park. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1389052243,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":284},"headData":{"title":"Berkeley Wildlife: Burrowing Owls Return to Waterfront Park | KQED","description":"Diminutive but not particularly shy, birds draw enthusiasts to city's César Chávez Park. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"122786 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=122786","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/06/berkeley-wildlife-burrowing-owls-return-to-waterfront-park/","disqusTitle":"Berkeley Wildlife: Burrowing Owls Return to Waterfront Park","customPermalink":"2014/01/06/nows-the-time-to-catch-sight-of-a-burrowing-owl/","path":"/news/122786/berkeley-wildlife-burrowing-owls-return-to-waterfront-park","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/burrowing-owl.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-122787\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/burrowing-owl-640x370.png\" alt=\"Early morning visitors to Cesar Chavez Park say they've seen burrowing owls for the past month. (Alex Madonik / Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early morning visitors to Cesar Chavez Park say they've seen burrowing owls for the past month. (Alex Madonik / Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tracey Taylor\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burrowing owls that make their home at \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=56000%20\">César Chávez Park\u003c/a> on the Berkeley Marina every year are back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Hickey, who works out in the predawn hours most mornings at the park, says he has noticed a pair of the birds there for at least the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They sit right on the edge of the path perhaps three feet away. They always seem to flank the edge of the protected corner area,” he said. “They are quite small. They look at me but I say nothing and I keep moving. I think they realize I don’t want to mess with them. Or they are dangerously blasé!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/burrowing-owl2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-122789\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/burrowing-owl2-640x372.png\" alt=\"(Alex Madonik / Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Alex Madonik / Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Western burrowing owls have been designated a “species of special concern” by the state of California, as their population has been declining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help protect them, the city of Berkeley collaborated with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/\">Golden Gate Audubon Society\u003c/a> and erected temporary fencing in 2009 at César Chávez Park to keep dogs and people out of the owls’ preferred roosting area along the shore. Docents are available at designated times to talk to visitors about the owls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owls can usually be found at the Marina, October through early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/122786/berkeley-wildlife-burrowing-owls-return-to-waterfront-park","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_356"],"tags":["news_129","news_5453","news_3901","news_1421"],"affiliates":["news_5078"],"featImg":"news_122787","label":"news_6944"},"news_95224":{"type":"posts","id":"news_95224","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"95224","score":null,"sort":[1366917384000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"urban-wildlife-retakes-san-jose","title":"A Wild Kingdom Right in the Middle of San Jose ","publishDate":1366917384,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Who knew? Downtown San Jose is booming with exotic wildlife. Earlier this month came \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/04/11/beavers-return-to-san-jose/\" target=\"_blank\">news that beavers had returned to the Guadalupe River\u003c/a> after a long absence. Now ... an update on the falcons that are making their nest on top of San Jose's City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week biologist Glenn Stewart rappelled over the top of 18-story San Jose City Hall into the nestbox of the city's peregrine falcon family -- stars of the \u003ca href=\"http://sanjose.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=91\" target=\"_blank\">FalconCam.\u003c/a> Stewart was on a gender-hunting mission. The goal was to band the new baby birds and also figure out if they were females or males (tiercels).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out it's a boy, and a boy, and a boy. Now the city is looking for three names for their baby tiercels. And they're opening it up to a contest among kids ages 5 to 18 who live or attend school in San Jose. Those interested \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?nid=242\" target=\"_blank\">can submit their choices\u003c/a>, or essays, poems, artwork or songs by midnight on April 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get inspired, there are plenty video clips of the young family on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/i7jGuXKAAAk?list=PLB2DEC76C4D8A6CAD\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Like the falcons, San Jose's beaver family includes little ones. And they also have their own video feed. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.grpg.org/\">Guadalupe River Park Conservancy\u003c/a> set up a trail camera to monitor their activity in the river, just across from HP Pavillion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/TZkjtkIfGOs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the falcons have been in the area since 2007, the beavers' arrival in San Jose this year signals an important milestone for the ecosystem. Beavers had been native to the area, but fur trading decimated their population, and none had been known to live in the area for 150 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's QUEST \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/04/11/beavers-return-to-san-jose/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote\u003c/a> extensively about their return. The beavers recolonized Martinez in 2007:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Since the beavers have settled in Martinez, the ecosystem has flourished, seeing at least 13 new species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next year, the river otter returned, no doubt to hunt the now plentiful fish in the beaver ponds. Then the year after, the mink returned,” said Rick Lanman of the Institute of Historical Ecology in Los Altos. “All manner of birds and fish have returned, and we don't even know how many species of dragonflies and damselflies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaver supporters praise the \u003ca title=\"Atlantic - beavers\" href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/leave-it-to-beavers/308980/\">benefits that beavers bestow\u003c/a> on the environment. The “ecosystem engineers” are a keystone species, and they raise water tables, create wetlands, clean water, slow water down and restore topsoil.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Of course they also have their detractors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Armed with two industrial-grade incisors, beavers are often considered a nuisance. They cause problems with agriculture, damming irrigation canals and chewing trees. They also wreak havoc in urban areas, gnawing landscaping and flooding fields.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, this beaver family seems to be providing entertainment and education for the city. Leave it to them.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1366942601,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":466},"headData":{"title":"A Wild Kingdom Right in the Middle of San Jose | KQED","description":"Who knew? Downtown San Jose is booming with exotic wildlife. Earlier this month came news that beavers had returned to the Guadalupe River after a long absence. Now ... an update on the falcons that are making their nest on top of San Jose's City Hall. This week biologist Glenn Stewart rappelled over the top","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"95224 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=95224","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/25/urban-wildlife-retakes-san-jose/","disqusTitle":"A Wild Kingdom Right in the Middle of San Jose ","customPermalink":"2013/04/24/downtown-san-joses-wildlife-is-a-good-sign-for-animals-and/","path":"/news/95224/urban-wildlife-retakes-san-jose","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Who knew? Downtown San Jose is booming with exotic wildlife. Earlier this month came \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/04/11/beavers-return-to-san-jose/\" target=\"_blank\">news that beavers had returned to the Guadalupe River\u003c/a> after a long absence. Now ... an update on the falcons that are making their nest on top of San Jose's City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week biologist Glenn Stewart rappelled over the top of 18-story San Jose City Hall into the nestbox of the city's peregrine falcon family -- stars of the \u003ca href=\"http://sanjose.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=91\" target=\"_blank\">FalconCam.\u003c/a> Stewart was on a gender-hunting mission. The goal was to band the new baby birds and also figure out if they were females or males (tiercels).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out it's a boy, and a boy, and a boy. Now the city is looking for three names for their baby tiercels. And they're opening it up to a contest among kids ages 5 to 18 who live or attend school in San Jose. Those interested \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?nid=242\" target=\"_blank\">can submit their choices\u003c/a>, or essays, poems, artwork or songs by midnight on April 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get inspired, there are plenty video clips of the young family on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/i7jGuXKAAAk?list=PLB2DEC76C4D8A6CAD\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Like the falcons, San Jose's beaver family includes little ones. And they also have their own video feed. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.grpg.org/\">Guadalupe River Park Conservancy\u003c/a> set up a trail camera to monitor their activity in the river, just across from HP Pavillion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/TZkjtkIfGOs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the falcons have been in the area since 2007, the beavers' arrival in San Jose this year signals an important milestone for the ecosystem. Beavers had been native to the area, but fur trading decimated their population, and none had been known to live in the area for 150 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's QUEST \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/04/11/beavers-return-to-san-jose/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote\u003c/a> extensively about their return. The beavers recolonized Martinez in 2007:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Since the beavers have settled in Martinez, the ecosystem has flourished, seeing at least 13 new species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next year, the river otter returned, no doubt to hunt the now plentiful fish in the beaver ponds. Then the year after, the mink returned,” said Rick Lanman of the Institute of Historical Ecology in Los Altos. “All manner of birds and fish have returned, and we don't even know how many species of dragonflies and damselflies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaver supporters praise the \u003ca title=\"Atlantic - beavers\" href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/leave-it-to-beavers/308980/\">benefits that beavers bestow\u003c/a> on the environment. The “ecosystem engineers” are a keystone species, and they raise water tables, create wetlands, clean water, slow water down and restore topsoil.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Of course they also have their detractors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Armed with two industrial-grade incisors, beavers are often considered a nuisance. They cause problems with agriculture, damming irrigation canals and chewing trees. They also wreak havoc in urban areas, gnawing landscaping and flooding fields.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, this beaver family seems to be providing entertainment and education for the city. Leave it to them.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/95224/urban-wildlife-retakes-san-jose","authors":["252"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_356"],"tags":["news_1307","news_18541","news_3901"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_91405":{"type":"posts","id":"news_91405","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"91405","score":null,"sort":[1363302563000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"can-you-shoot-a-goose-and-other-bay-area-wildlife-questions","title":"Can You Shoot a Goose? And Other Bay Area Wildlife Questions","publishDate":1363302563,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91446\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/14/can-you-shoot-a-goose-and-other-bay-area-wildlife-questions/8557519591_ab204442e9_o/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91446\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-91446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/8557519591_ab204442e9_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Part of a flock of 30 turkeys that invaded and took up residence in the East Bay town of Albany over the winter. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of a flock of 30 turkeys that took up residence in the East Bay town of Albany over the winter. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ever want to trap a turkey? Eradicate a raccoon? Garrote a goose? You’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more and more wild creatures set up housekeeping in Bay Area cities and suburbs, some residents are getting tired of squirrels eating their bird food. They're furious when raccoons battle their dogs, sad when their roses disappear down a deer’s gullet, and disgusted when fowl foul the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, some wild urban creatures look like they might be good for dinner. Several readers of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/06/what-to-do-if-you-are-attacked-by-a-wild-turkey-a-bay-area-problem/\" target=\"_blank\">our recent post\u003c/a> on how to respond to aggressive turkeys suggested taking matters into your own hands. But if you're searching in the basement for your grandfather's shotgun, stop right there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the critters that annoy us the most are protected by one statute or another, especially within city limits.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, it’s illegal to discharge a firearm or projectile weapon in most urban areas except in very specific instances, such as an immediate threat to personal safety. It's unlikely a pecking fowl would qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would not encourage anyone to engage a turkey with a firearm in our city limits,\" says San Francisco police spokesman Gordon Shyy. You’d probably have to be cornered by a bear or mountain lion to claim self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland and San Jose have similarly strict laws with few exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s municipal code appears to leave the largest loophole, \u003ca href=\"http://codepublishing.com/CA/Berkeley/cgi/NewSmartCompile.pl?path=Berkeley13/Berkeley1372/Berkeley1372.html#13.72.020\" target=\"_blank\">an exemption\u003c/a> for \"persons using firearms for the purpose of destroying noxious animals upon land owned or occupied by them.\" Berkeley officials confirm the law is on the books, but they refused to offer an example of when it might apply, or even a definition of \"noxious.\" (The law in Berkeley might be trumped by the state Fish and Game Code, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=fgc&group=02001-03000&file=3000-3012\" target=\"_blank\">prohibits\u003c/a> discharging firearms within 150 yards of an occupied building.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of cities other than Berkeley may wonder if they'd be allowed to kill animal intruders with their bare hands, or perhaps tilt the scale slightly with a tire iron or shovel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probably not. It's illegal to kill \u003ca href=\"http://www.fgc.ca.gov/regulations/current/mammalregs.aspx#250\" target=\"_blank\">certain animals\u003c/a> that have a legal status, regardless of whether or not a gun is used. Animals like deer, mountain lions, gray squirrels, bears and turkeys, to name a few, are \u003ca href=\"http://www.fgc.ca.gov/regulations/current/mammalregs.aspx#310\" target=\"_blank\">game animals\u003c/a> and thus require a permit to hunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distressed citizens can request a depredation permit from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, which also requires contracting a licensed wildlife control operator who must act as the property owner’s agent. Once the permit and wildlife person are in place, the target animal must be euthanized (because problem critters won't be relocated), and no one's allowed to eat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s no early turkey dinner,” said Conrad Jones, a CDFW scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may legally kill mice or rats by any means necessary. Just don’t use \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Toxic-rats-mice-spur-rodenticide-battle-4153464.php\" target=\"_blank\">certain pesticides\u003c/a> that are likely to cause ecological damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raccoons—those lovable, intelligent garbage bandits—present an interesting legal quandary for the potentially murderous homeowner. Technically, “you do not need a permit to dispatch them if you are suffering damage,” Jones said. But you might find yourself arrested for poaching a fur-bearing animal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what can you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Don’t feed them directly, and don’t feed your pets outdoors. The more the wild animals get, the more they’ll demand. (If you actually want to help the wild animals, consult \u003ca href=\"http://yuwr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue\u003c/a>.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Secure your garbage cans and cat doors.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pick up fallen fruit.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Build good fences.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If confronted, make noise or spray water.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If that doesn't do the trick, contact the Department of Fish and Wildlife, your local animal control office or a licensed pest control service.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For more detailed recommendations on a variety of species, visit this CDFW \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfg.ca.gov/LivingWithWildlife/\" target=\"_blank\">resource page\u003c/a>, or read these \u003ca href=\"http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PDF/PESTNOTES/\" target=\"_blank\">detailed documents\u003c/a> from the UC-Davis.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, get yourself a pair of binoculars and perhaps a telephoto lens. Some of these critters are downright fun to watch. Like this turkey in North Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-92jQGHgc]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1424545303,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":723},"headData":{"title":"Can You Shoot a Goose? And Other Bay Area Wildlife Questions","description":"Most of the critters that annoy us the most are protected by one statute or another, especially within city limits.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"91405 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=91405","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/14/can-you-shoot-a-goose-and-other-bay-area-wildlife-questions/","disqusTitle":"Can You Shoot a Goose? And Other Bay Area Wildlife Questions","path":"/news/91405/can-you-shoot-a-goose-and-other-bay-area-wildlife-questions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91446\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/14/can-you-shoot-a-goose-and-other-bay-area-wildlife-questions/8557519591_ab204442e9_o/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91446\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-91446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/8557519591_ab204442e9_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Part of a flock of 30 turkeys that invaded and took up residence in the East Bay town of Albany over the winter. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of a flock of 30 turkeys that took up residence in the East Bay town of Albany over the winter. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ever want to trap a turkey? Eradicate a raccoon? Garrote a goose? You’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more and more wild creatures set up housekeeping in Bay Area cities and suburbs, some residents are getting tired of squirrels eating their bird food. They're furious when raccoons battle their dogs, sad when their roses disappear down a deer’s gullet, and disgusted when fowl foul the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, some wild urban creatures look like they might be good for dinner. Several readers of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/06/what-to-do-if-you-are-attacked-by-a-wild-turkey-a-bay-area-problem/\" target=\"_blank\">our recent post\u003c/a> on how to respond to aggressive turkeys suggested taking matters into your own hands. But if you're searching in the basement for your grandfather's shotgun, stop right there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the critters that annoy us the most are protected by one statute or another, especially within city limits.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, it’s illegal to discharge a firearm or projectile weapon in most urban areas except in very specific instances, such as an immediate threat to personal safety. It's unlikely a pecking fowl would qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would not encourage anyone to engage a turkey with a firearm in our city limits,\" says San Francisco police spokesman Gordon Shyy. You’d probably have to be cornered by a bear or mountain lion to claim self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland and San Jose have similarly strict laws with few exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s municipal code appears to leave the largest loophole, \u003ca href=\"http://codepublishing.com/CA/Berkeley/cgi/NewSmartCompile.pl?path=Berkeley13/Berkeley1372/Berkeley1372.html#13.72.020\" target=\"_blank\">an exemption\u003c/a> for \"persons using firearms for the purpose of destroying noxious animals upon land owned or occupied by them.\" Berkeley officials confirm the law is on the books, but they refused to offer an example of when it might apply, or even a definition of \"noxious.\" (The law in Berkeley might be trumped by the state Fish and Game Code, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=fgc&group=02001-03000&file=3000-3012\" target=\"_blank\">prohibits\u003c/a> discharging firearms within 150 yards of an occupied building.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of cities other than Berkeley may wonder if they'd be allowed to kill animal intruders with their bare hands, or perhaps tilt the scale slightly with a tire iron or shovel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probably not. It's illegal to kill \u003ca href=\"http://www.fgc.ca.gov/regulations/current/mammalregs.aspx#250\" target=\"_blank\">certain animals\u003c/a> that have a legal status, regardless of whether or not a gun is used. Animals like deer, mountain lions, gray squirrels, bears and turkeys, to name a few, are \u003ca href=\"http://www.fgc.ca.gov/regulations/current/mammalregs.aspx#310\" target=\"_blank\">game animals\u003c/a> and thus require a permit to hunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distressed citizens can request a depredation permit from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, which also requires contracting a licensed wildlife control operator who must act as the property owner’s agent. Once the permit and wildlife person are in place, the target animal must be euthanized (because problem critters won't be relocated), and no one's allowed to eat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s no early turkey dinner,” said Conrad Jones, a CDFW scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may legally kill mice or rats by any means necessary. Just don’t use \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Toxic-rats-mice-spur-rodenticide-battle-4153464.php\" target=\"_blank\">certain pesticides\u003c/a> that are likely to cause ecological damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raccoons—those lovable, intelligent garbage bandits—present an interesting legal quandary for the potentially murderous homeowner. Technically, “you do not need a permit to dispatch them if you are suffering damage,” Jones said. But you might find yourself arrested for poaching a fur-bearing animal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what can you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Don’t feed them directly, and don’t feed your pets outdoors. The more the wild animals get, the more they’ll demand. 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(Audrey Sillers)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkeys get ready to roost in a yard in the East Bay town of Albany. (Audrey Sillers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has become a familiar ritual for residents of one block on Cornell Avenue in the East Bay town of Albany: Every evening just after sunset, wild turkeys appear. They amble up the street, alone, then in twos and threes, then in larger groups, until maybe 30 have gathered. They gobble and screech. As they near the home of Renu Bhatt and Pareen Shah, they flap up to the tops of cars and onto rooftops; from there, they lumber through the air into a big redwood in Bhatt's and Shah's backyard, where they roost for the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/albanyturkeys.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the radio report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/albanyturkeys.mp3]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wild turkeys arrived about Thanksgiving, and they've turned the couple's backyard into a no-play zone for their two sons, Akash, 4, and Ajay, 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can see it's just a mess,\" Bhatt says. \"There are droppings everywhere, especially if you go back behind the garage. So my kids aren't allowed to play in the backyard anymore. It's just infested.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not the only problem. Night-time noises--sirens, say, or a loud car passing nearby--agitate the turkeys and set off a round of squawking and gobbling, and that in turn wakes up the family. Bhatt is also concerned the big birds that have claimed her backyard as home can become aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now is: What to do to get the birds to move on? \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/4Yh7Y09bHyQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video of the Cornell Avenue turkeys shot by a neighbor of Shah and Bhatt\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/4Yh7Y09bHyQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhatt says officials from Alameda County Vector Control have advised her to try to harass the birds. Bhatt says that because of her cultural and religious background--she's Hindu, her husband, Shah, is a Jain--she wants to use a nonviolent approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've tried to say, 'Shoo!' and kind of make yourself big,\" Bhatt says. \"And my son will be, 'Go away, turkeys, go away.' So we've all kind of tried.\" She says that more direct methods, like squirting a garden hose at the turkeys, has only prompted them to fly higher into the backyard redwood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vector control workers say they suspect neighborhoood residents are probably feeding the birds, thus encouraging them to stay. (The state Department of Fish and Wildlife says that's \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfg.ca.gov/keepmewild/turkey.html\" target=\"_blank\">a common problem\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhatt last week wrote \u003ca href=\"http://albany.patch.com/articles/letter-to-the-editor-tired-of-all-the-wild-turkey-troubles\" target=\"_blank\">a public appeal\u003c/a> for help, and she and Shah are appealing to the Albany City Council to consider an ordinance to outlaw feeding wild animals. They also want the town to approach vector control and state wildlife officials about taking action to dislodge the turkeys before their spring breeding season begins and their numbers increase.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1361331577,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":475},"headData":{"title":"Wild Turkeys Invade Albany Neighborhood; Video | KQED","description":"It has become a familiar ritual for residents of one block on Cornell Avenue in the East Bay town of Albany: Every evening just after sunset, wild turkeys appear. They amble up the street, alone, then in twos and threes, then in larger groups, until maybe 30 have gathered. They gobble and screech. 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As they near the home of Renu Bhatt and Pareen Shah, they flap up to the tops of cars and onto rooftops; from there, they lumber through the air into a big redwood in Bhatt's and Shah's backyard, where they roost for the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/albanyturkeys.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the radio report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"label":":http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/albanyturkeys.mp3"},"numeric":[":http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/albanyturkeys.mp3"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wild turkeys arrived about Thanksgiving, and they've turned the couple's backyard into a no-play zone for their two sons, Akash, 4, and Ajay, 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can see it's just a mess,\" Bhatt says. \"There are droppings everywhere, especially if you go back behind the garage. 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