Kluane Red Squirrel Project
News
Shame on squirrels! Red Squirrels make Q’s Cultural Hall of Shame on CBC (Q podcast)
Jamie Gorrell talks about squirrel adoption on CBC’s Quirks and Quarks (link)
UofA grad student discovers that red squirrels adopt orphaned relatives (paper) (media resources)
An interdisciplinary study of the ecology, evolution and energetics of red squirrels
This project is supported by funds from the National Science Foundation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Recent Publications
Gorrell, J.C., A.G. McAdam, D. W. Coltman, M.M. Humphries, and S. Boutin. 2010. Adopting kin enhances inclusive fitness in asocial red squirrels. Nature Communications 1:22 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1022. (link)
Dantzer, B., A. G. McAdam, R. Palme, Q. E. Fletcher, S. Boutin, M. M. Humphries, and R. Boonstra. 2010. Fecal cortisol metabolite levels in free-ranging North American red squirrels: Assay validation and the effects of reproductive condition. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 167: 279-286. (link)
