Squirrel intelligence and adaptability get put to the test in this challenging obstacle course, in which the gray squirrels need to cross a series of platforms – some stable, some not – in order to ...

Mark Rober, the YouTuber and former NASA engineer responsible for everything from blasting porch pirates with glitter bombs to educating people on how germs spread, has made a squirrel-proof bird ...

The former NASA engineer behind the package-thief punishing glitter bomb has a new invention: a backyard obstacle course intended to stave off nut-stealing squirrels. “This is a bird feeder, and ...

[Mark Rober] has a bird feeder in his back yard. Also, squirrels who eat the seed. So, as one does, he built a nine part squirrel obstacle course with a reward of walnuts at the end, and filmed them ...

The squirrel ninjas triumph again. Mark Rober may be a former NASA and Apple engineer but the squirrels in his backyard are smarter than his obstacle course. After version 1.0 of the squirrel maze ...

You may have winced at that squirrel catapult we showed you a couple of months ago, but here’s a Rube Goldbergesque contraption that squirrels willingly navigate. Look at those little guys running the ...

Mark Rober found a creative and hilarious way to squirrel-proof his bird feeder. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

This is pretty amazing. It's a video of a squirrel working its way through a very tricky obstacle course in order to munch on some nuts (which reminds me, did you see the 2005 version of Charlie and ...