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The prairie dog after turning its head Dramatic Chipmunk is a viral Internet video . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The video is a 5-second clip of a prairie dog (erroneously referred to as a chipmunk ) turning its head while the camera zooms in and dramatic music is played.
Richardson's ground squirrel (Urocitellus richardsonii), also known as the dakrat or flickertail, is a North American ground squirrel in the genus Urocitellus.Like a number of other ground squirrels, they are sometimes called prairie dogs or gophers, though the latter name belongs more strictly to the pocket gophers of family Geomyidae, and the former to members of the genus Cynomys.
Ground squirrels are rodents of the squirrel family that generally live on the ground or in burrows, rather than in trees like the tree squirrels.The term is most often used for the medium-sized ground squirrels, as the larger ones are more commonly known as marmots (genus Marmota) or prairie dogs, while the smaller and less bushy-tailed ground squirrels tend to be known as chipmunks (genus ...
Prairie dogs aren’t dogs at all but are actually a species of ground squirrels. They are cousins of the squirrels we find in our backyards. Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie ...
Rory Szwed, left, and Kent Rowan watch the festivities while waiting for Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, to come out and make his prediction during the the 137th ...
A prairie dog town may contain 15–26 family groups, [20] with subgroups within a town, called "wards", which are separated by a physical barrier. Family groups exist within these wards. Most prairie dog family groups are made up of one adult breeding male, two or three adult females, and one or two male offspring and one or two female offspring.
Punxsutawney Phil’s 2024 Groundhog Day Prediction Results in Series of Wild Memes. ... 20 of the funniest tweets about cats and dogs this week (Nov. 23-29) News. News. NBC Universal.
The thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus), also known as the striped gopher, leopard ground squirrel, and squinny (formerly known as the leopard-spermophile in the age of Audubon), is a species of hibernating ground squirrel that is widely distributed over grasslands and prairies of North America.