UC Berkeley researchers recently released a study chronicling the striking decline in the genetic diversity of alpine chipmunks, with all indicators suggesting that the decline is a consequence of ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Kwasi Wrensford describes the genus Neotamius as "elfin": skittish little squirrel-cousins with angular faces, pointy ears and ...

Michael Ellis has this Perspective on a cute creature with a bushy tail that thrives throughout California. When the Europeans first landed on the shore of this continent there were many animals new ...

Jim Patton, a retired University of California at Berkeley professor of zoology, hikes in 10,000-foot-high terrain near Upper Young Lake in Yosemite National Park as he explores ways climate change ...

Have you seen small birds nervously jumping up and down the branches and calling at a cat in a park? For a long time, scientists have been interested in what type of information about predators is ...