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 ...

Miniature Russian spyware is infiltrating an underground Canadian community. The perpetrators? Scientists studying how eastern chipmunks communicate. For the first time, the team has outfitted the ...

I feel bad for readers who don’t know the name David Sedaris. Last week, they walked into Borders, glanced at Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk and dismissed it as a kids’ book or a parody. But it’s neither; it ...