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However, ground squirrels, like our chipmunks, enter a true hibernation state. During this time, their body temperature drops dramatically, and their heart rate slows to just a few beats per minute.

Spring is blooming but so is wildlife appetite. If your garden is starting to look more like a wild buffet than a peaceful ...

Hantavirus isn't just in deer mice, according to a new peer-reviewed study from the University of New Mexico, which found the virus in a quarter of more than 1,400 small mammals tested across the ...

Hardware cloth has a fine enough netting that it'll keep pretty much every critter from squirrels ... cloth up above ground, so that it protects the plants themselves and keeps chipmunks from ...

Cover crops like millet, sorghum, and black-eyed peas have been successful at the botanic gardens. They improve water ...

But now, University of New Mexico researchers have found that more than 30 species of rodent and other small mammals endemic to the Southwest actually carry the virus, including ground squirrels, ...

Here it is, barely spring in the Northland, and male eastern bluebirds are beginning to show up. And what a welcome sight ...

Check out community events around New Mexico from March 28 to April 3. Albuquerque March 28 Legal Fair – From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Dennis Chavez Community Center, attorneys ...

They screened over a thousand mammals from across the state since 2019 and found the virus in not just mice but also in squirrels, chipmunks ... Humane breaks ground on new clinic facility ...

A woman was reportedly eating her breakfast when officers cut her tent open on the Kelowna rail trail homeless encampment today. The usual spring clean up of the city-run homeless encampment on ...