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European ground squirrel whistling European ground squirrel eating the seeds of the denseflower mullein. The European ground squirrel is a colonial animal and is mainly diurnal. It excavates a branching system of tunnels up to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) deep with several entrances.
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 ...
Marmots are large ground squirrels in the genus Marmota, with 15 species living in Asia, Europe, and North America. These herbivores are active during the summer, when they can often be found in groups, but are not seen during the winter, when they hibernate underground. They are the heaviest members of the squirrel family. [1]
Calabrian black squirrel, Sciurus meridionalis [2] Siberian flying squirrel, Pteromys volans DD (northern Scandinavia, Estonia) European souslik, Spermophilus citellus EN (north-eastern Europe) Yellow ground squirrel, Spermophilus fulvus LC (eastern Europe) Little ground squirrel, Spermophilus pygmaeus LC (eastern Europe)
The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. [2] A lowland creature of North America, it is found through much of the Eastern United States, across Canada and into Alaska. [3]
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).
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.
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 ...