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 ...

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 ...

What do engineers do when they get bored with designing parts for the Curiosity Mars rover? They put their engineering skills to work and build the most sophisticated obstacle course for squirrels.

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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, covering pets, animal rescue and ...

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 ...