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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.
Urocitellus is a genus of ground squirrels.They were previously believed to belong to the much larger genus Spermophilus, but DNA sequencing of the cytochrome b gene showed that this group was paraphyletic to the prairie dogs and marmots, [2] [3] and could therefore no longer be retained as a single genus.
Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis introduced; Eastern fox squirrel, Sciurus niger; American red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus; Uinta ground squirrel, Urocitellus armatus; Columbian ground squirrel, Urocitellus columbianus; Wyoming ground squirrel, Urocitellus elegans; Richardson's ground squirrel, Urocitellus richardsonii; Ord's ...
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel, Ictidomys tridecemlineatus; Franklin's ground squirrel, Poliocitellus frankinii; Richardson's ground squirrel, Urocitellus richardsonii; Groundhog, Marmota monax; Least chipmunk, Neotamias minimus; Eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus; Fox squirrel, Sciurus niger; Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis
California ground squirrels deviating from a steady diet of nuts, seeds or grains was "shocking," said Jennifer E. Smith, study lead and associate professor of biology at UW-Eau Claire.
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 ...
Squirrels can cache as many as 3,000 nuts each season, but remembering where all the nuts are stored seems impossible. Unlike most small mammals whose brains shrink during winter due to reduced ...
Sardinella richardsoni (Richardson's sardinella) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella from the South China Sea in the northwest Pacific. [11] Astronesthes richardsoni, or Richardson's snaggletooth, is a species of small, deep sea fish in the family Stomiidae. It occurs in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea ...