Take, for example, the Belding's ground squirrel.
The top spot was occupied by the golden-mantled ground squirrel, at 120Hz.
Rapt, we watched as she flushed a ground squirrel and grabbed it in her paws.
Central Asia's sandy deserts are home to the single species of long-clawed ground squirrel (genus Spermophilopsis), whereas the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico are populated by five species of antelope ground squirrel (genus Ammospermophilus).
Smaller mammals of the lower elevations include the least chipmunk, red squirrel, Columbian ground squirrel, black-footed ferret, and marmot.
Among the common grassland mammals are Richardson's ground squirrel and the pocket gopher, both of which damage young grain crops.
Coyotes, foxes, and lynx, together with the gophers (Richardson's ground squirrel), rabbits, and other creatures they prey on, are abundant.
Some, like the Columbian ground squirrel, spend up to nine months of each year in their alcoves.
In Wyoming, scientists have seen coyotes hunting with badgers, large burrowing creatures that enjoy a nice bit of ground squirrel.
Any incipient hibernation, shown for instance by the arctic ground squirrel, proves abortive, as the animals will shiver themselves awake after only a few days.
The white-tailed antelope ground squirrel uses its bushy tail as a parasol; the kangaroo rat cleverly reabsorbs vapour from its own breath.
