Parkour enthusiasts need look no further than up in the trees for inspiration. Squirrels’ aerial acrobatics make the rodents masters of the form, a new study suggests. A detailed look at how squirrels ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study published in the journal Science, a team of biologists and biomechanics researchers from UC Berkeley outlines how ...

A fox squirrel perched on part of an experiment designed to test its agility and decision-making. Researchers used peanuts to entice the rodents to participate. UC Berkeley photo by Judy Jinn Nearly ...

Videos of squirrels leaping from bendy branches across impossibly large gaps, parkouring off walls, scrambling to recover from tricky landings. Just more YouTube content documenting the crazy antics ...

High-speed video of squirrels executing amazing leaps in pursuit of peanuts captures the animals’ innovative solutions to reaching their goal. Video courtesy of Roxanne Makasdjian and Jeremy Snowden, ...

Squirrels' acrobatic leaps across treetops depend on complex split-second calculations and inventive "parkour" maneuvers to stick tricky landings, a new study in the journal Science said Thursday.

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The acrobatic rodents called fox squirrels learn to leap from branch to branch with a mix of careful calculation and ‘parkour’, according to experiments that had them bounding through a simulated ...

A team of researchers at UC Berkeley is studying squirrels’ general dexterity and “parkour” skills in the hopes of building more agile robots. It’s difficult to overstate how eager scientists and ...

Videos of squirrels leaping from bendy branches across impossibly large gaps, parkouring off walls, scrambling to recover from tricky landings. Just more YouTube content documenting the crazy antics ...

Parkour Squirrel-ouis can't lose. Also, as a sign of the changing of the times, my newer copy of the hit book Joy of Cooking (this is the 1964 edition) contains a serving suggestion for squirrel. You ...

Squirrels' acrobatic leaps across treetops depend on complex split-second calculations and inventive "parkour" maneuvers to stick tricky landings, a new study in the journal Science said Thursday.