ground squirrel

ground squirrel

A burrowing rodent of the squirrel family more commonly known as a gopher. You can really tell that spring is here when the ground squirrels start coming out again.
See also: ground, squirrel
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • that feeling when
  • squirrel food
  • squirrel-food
  • that feel when
  • a household name
  • a household name/word
  • squirrel out of something
  • poke out of
  • poke out of (something)
  • gopher ball
References in periodicals archive
The European ground squirrels were brought to the meadow in 2000 from Kosice airport.
Captured by sousliks: Do you know where in Slovakia they will eat from your hand?
Compared to 24 marten food studies across North America that we reviewed (Buskirk and Ruggiero 1994; Martin 1994), and the NE Oregon study (Bull 2000), our study reports the highest FO for chipmunks and ground squirrels in marten scats, which we speculate is habitat related.
FOOD HABITS OF PACIFIC MARTEN FROM SCATS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL OREGON
A new Louisiana heron and a new round tailed ground squirrel from lower California, Mexico.
Status of the Isolated, Threatened Valle de la Trinidad Round-Tailed Ground Squirrel, Baja California, Mexico
Since a colony of ground squirrels will eat large amounts of alfalfa, grown to feed livestock, ranchers and farmers often welcome recreational "sage rat" shooters on their properties.
Heavy metal: the debate over how to regulate lead ammunition is heating up in Oregon
morainensis (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the Mexican ground squirrel Spermophilus mexicanus (Rodentia: Sciuridae), in south central Texas, U.S.A.
Eimeria vilasi (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) from the roundtailed ground squirrel (xerospermophilus tereticaudus)
Two visual assessments at Tamarack Flat Campground noted a lower than expected abundance and diversity of rodents and numerous abandoned California ground squirrel burrows.
Investigation of and response to 2 plague cases, Yosemite National Park, California, USA, 2015
Juvenile dispersal of Franklin's ground squirrel (Spermophilus franklinii) from a prairie "island." Am.
Disappearance and mortality causes in thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) juveniles
Sciurid phylogeny and the paraphyly of Holarctic ground squirrels (Spermophilus).
Effects of Natural Environmental Conditions on the Ovarian Histometric Dynamics of Five Striped Squirrels (Funambulus pennanti)/ Efectos de las Condiciones Ambientales Naturales sobre la Dinamica Histometrica de Ovarios en la Ardilla de las Palmeras (Funambulus pennanti)
The notion that predation may now play a structuring role in the montane boreal system led me to analyze 23 years of ground squirrel mark-recapture density estimates for patterns consistent with predator limitation.
Factors governing the distribution and abundance of Arctic ground squirrels
The ground squirrel, Spermophilus xanthoprymnus, is a terrestrial diurnal rodent; an excellent hibernator of the family Cricetidae.
Effect of Hibernation on Oxidative and Antioxidant Events under Laboratory Conditions in Anatolian Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835) (Mammalia: Sciuridae) from Central Anatolia
What is the common name for the American Parliament to cover the monarch's private ground squirrel? expenses?
Quiz of the Day
Over the past 20 years, the snow in the ground squirrel's habitat has been melting later -- a delay of nearly three days per year over the past 20 years -- thanks to the increasing likelihood of late-season snowstorms.
Climate Change Hits Snooze Button For Ground Squirrels: Study
There are two distinct versions (different color phases and poses) of each of 11 small mammals that generally live in grasslands, along creeks/ponds, or woodland edges of Midwestern habitats: Eastern Chipmunk, Franklin's Ground Squirrel, Eastern Mole, Plains Pocket Gopher, Thirteen Lined Ground Squirrel, Northern Short Tailed Shrew, Southern Bog Lemming, Meadow Vole, Meadow Jumping Mouse, Deer Mouse, and Northern Grasshopper Mouse.
Small Mammal Jointed Models to Make, Description Cards, and a Menu of Follow-on Activities in Different Intelligence Areas
The European ground squirrel is an obligate hibernator whose reproduction is limited by a relatively short active season, and it is a species of special conservation concern.
Release site manipulation to favour European ground squirrel Spermophilus citellus translocations: translocation and habitat manipulation
One story is a trickster's tale that shows how even a tiny creature like a ground squirrel can use its ingenuity to escape a hungry owl.
Tales from the Tundra: A Collection of Inuit Stories