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Colonies of Townsend's ground squirrel are fragmented and isolated. [1] In 2022, the Bureau of Land Management had 16 unique records of occurrence. [4] In 2012, there were 8 colonies recorded for the Hanford Reach National Monument. [4] [5] [6] As of 2024, there are 29 research grade observations in iNaturalist. [7]
The Golden Gopher, however, refers to the Thirteen-lined ground squirrel, which is not a member of the Geomyidae family. [15] Gainer the Gopher is the mascot of the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Canadian Football League. [16] Gopher is a recurring character in Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise.
Thirteen-lined ground squirrels can survive in hibernation for over six months without food or water and special physiological adaptations allow them to do so. [6] They alternate between torpor bouts of 7 to 10 days when their body temperatures drops to 5-7°C, and interbout arousals of less than 24 hours with their body temperature back to 37 ...
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 ...
The slightly larger Rio Grande ground squirrel has nine or 10 rows of non-bordered, distinct, white, square spots; whereas, the spotted ground squirrel’s fur has a more cinnamon dorsal color and ...
Fox squirrel in Portage, Michigan Muskrat in Brownstown, Michigan Wolf at Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Michigan White-tailed deer at Milan, Michigan. American badger; American bison (extirpated) American black bear; American ermine; American marten; American red squirrel; American water shrew; Big brown bat; Beaver; Bobcat; Brown rat ...
American beaver Eastern gray squirrel Fox squirrel American red squirrel Southern flying squirrel White-tailed antelope squirrel Black-tailed prairie dog Yellow-bellied marmot Round-tailed ground squirrel Richardson's ground squirrel Eastern chipmunk Least chipmunk Northern pocket gopher Ord's kangaroo rat Singing vole White-footed mouse Hispid ...
Townsend's ground squirrel, Urocitellus townsendii [n 4] VU. Townsend's ground squirrel, Urocitellus (townsendii) nancyae [12] [n 12] VU; Merriam's ground squirrel, Urocitellus canus [n 1] LC; Piute ground squirrel, Urocitellus mollis [n 1] [13] LC; Washington ground squirrel, Urocitellus washingtoni [n 4] NT; Mohave ground squirrel ...