ground squirrel

It is common to see chipmunks, ground squirrels, and various species of birds gathering around camp kitchens.

Ground squirrels are well suited to survival in the sometimes unforgiving climate of these mountains.

Dr. Tomonaga and his colleagues have found independent invasions in other mammals, including ground squirrels, guinea pigs and elephants.

But I knew that there were examples of creatures, also mammals, that do reduce their metabolic rate such as ground squirrels and bears.

burrowing animals - - woodchucks , badgers , ground squirrels , moles - - move rocks and expose them to the air.

A similar situation has evolved among California ground squirrels with respect to the venom of northern Pacific rattlesnakes.

Remarkably, ground squirrels use alarm signals that are very specific to the threat.

Cape ground squirrels are found in the drier parts of Africa and live in colonies of up to 30.

Here tourists can easily meet susliks or Arctic ground squirrels.

Ground squirrels discuss something on a hill.

Marmots are rodents. They are large ground squirrels, about the size of an average house cat, and they live in a variety of habitats.

Scientists believe the house was occupied in summer, based on the bones from salmon and immature ground squirrels found there.

Golden- mantled ground squirrels live in underground burrows, where they store their food.

Chipmunks are less heavy-bodied and more active that many ground squirrels.

During long severe winters some animals, such as badgers, ground squirrels, and some insects , hibernate.

Ground squirrels live in burrows, instead of in the trees like other squirrels.

Short photoperiod induces the thermogenesis in Daurian ground squirrels