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The California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi), also known as the Beechey ground squirrel, [4] is a common and easily observed ground squirrel of the western United States and the Baja California Peninsula; it is common in Oregon and California and its range has relatively recently extended into Washington and northwestern Nevada.
Spermophilus is a genus of ground squirrels in the squirrel family. [1] As traditionally defined the genus was very species-rich, ranging through Europe, Asia and North America, but this arrangement was found to be paraphyletic to the certainly distinct prairie dogs, marmots, and antelope squirrels.
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A California ground squirrel in Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County feeds on a vole as an adaptive behavioral response to an increase in the local vole population, a new study found.
The Pannonian souslik was a medium-sized species of souslik, with an estimated size similar to that of the European souslik. [2] [4] Its skull is estimated to be 42–44 millimetres (1.7–1.7 in) in length, larger than in the European and the speckled souslik, but smaller than large, Asiatic species such as the russet (), yellow and relict ground squirrel (S. relictus).
A new study from U.C. Davis and UW-Eau Claire found that California ground squirrels not only eat nuts and fruit — but also hunt and eat voles, which are small mouse-like rodents.
A California ground squirrel in Conta Costa County runs with a vole it hunted in its mouth. The images are some of the first documented incidences of carnivorous feeding of voles by squirrels ...
Otospermophilus is a genus of ground squirrels in the family Sciuridae, containing three species from Mexico and the United States. Otospermophilus was formerly placed in the large ground squirrel genus Spermophilus, as a subgenus or species group.