How To Use Ground squirrel In A Sentence
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While hibernation during the winter is found in a few arctic mammals such as the Arctic ground squirrel (Spermophilus parryii), most homeothermic animals are active throughout the year.
General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
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The episode looks at unusual traits animals use to survive - including ground squirrels that eat the discarded skins of snakes to mask their scent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Back on the land, ferret badgers take turns with otters, ground squirrels and crab-eating macaques to stalk out their territory on the numerous white sandy beaches.
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The ground squirrel that called the crevice his home came shooting out of his burrow, tail high and stiff, bounding with rage, to chitter angrily at her.
The Elvenbane
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Look for the soaring rough-legged hawk and the hovering kestrel as each hunts for ground squirrels and other rodents.
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The roofs are planted with a variety of native prairie grasses and flowers and have become habitat for birds and ground squirrels.
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The fact that hibernators are as numerous and as varied as they are - the club includes some ground squirrels and rodents, at least one bird, various snakes and the echidna which is the platypus's closest living relative, among other species - suggests that the biological machinery that's needed for hibernation is both ancient and widespread in the animal kingdom.
Many species use hibernation to survive the rigors of winter
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The episode looks at unusual traits animals use to survive - including ground squirrels that eat the discarded skins of snakes to mask their scent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some ermine appropriate the burrows of mice or ground squirrels and adapt them for their own use.
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Metabolic costs increase by approximately 16% for the diurnal ground squirrel, but less than 4% for the nocturnal woodrat.
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Burrowing owls prefer to remodel an existing burrow, often a ground squirrel's.
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Varmints, those troublesome, unpleasant or despicable animals, include coyotes, fox, raccoons, ground hogs, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, jackrabbits and other small rodents.
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Smaller mammals include Columbia ground squirrel, flying squirrel, marten, redtail chipmunk, and bushytail woodrat.
Northern Rocky Mountain Forest-Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
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In late summer, ground squirrels move underground to escape the dry, hot environment.
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Sometimes the boys would rout out little ground squirrels and chase them into the bush.
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The typical fauna of mammals in the vast Kazakhstan steppes includes the numerous rodents such as ground squirrels (Citellus), hamsters (Cricetus, Cricetulus, Podopus), voles (Microtus), birch mice (Sicista), lemmings (Lagurus), marmots (Marmota bobac); and lagomorphs such as pikas (Ochotona) and hares (Lepus).
Kazakh steppe
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Some ermine appropriate the burrows of mice or ground squirrels and adapt them for their own use.
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The trail rambles gently through dry lodgepoles alive with chickarees and golden-mantled ground squirrels.
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A ground squirrel emerges into a field of wildflowers in the Canadian Rockies.
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Burrows which have been abandoned may be used for shelter by bats, ground squirrels, hares, cats, civets, hyenas, jackals, porcupines, monitor lizards, owls and warthogs.
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Keeping the ground squirrel population down is a precaution against humans and pets being infected.
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I remember Grandma telling us to go hunt for some ground squirrels or anything eatable for meat.
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These were the grey, black, and red or fox varieties of the tree squirrel, and two species of ground squirrel -- one the common hackee, or chipping squirrel; while the other was a new species, which we had caught on the desert plain above, among the roots of the _artemisia_ plant.
The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness
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Dimples and scratches in the sand also reveal the presence of numerous small mammals, including kangaroo rats, ground squirrels, pocket mice, and wood rats.
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Chipmunks, like other ground squirrels, eat seeds and acorns of woody plants, nuts, grains, and fruit.
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Many ground squirrels hibernate and some store food in underground burrows.
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Burrows which have been abandoned may be used for shelter by bats, ground squirrels, hares, cats, civets, hyenas, jackals, porcupines, monitor lizards, owls and warthogs.
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But beware - the park is crawling with ground squirrels and if you're not paying attention, you can get your foot stuck in a gopher hole.
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Starting downhill we encounter a bear hole, dug in pursuit of a ground squirrel.
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Of course, small, cute, furry animals like ground squirrels are also highly cannibalistic," added Longrich, who is a paleontologist at Yale University.
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The ground squirrel is another mammal that has adopted the practice of throwing things - primarily at its main predators, snakes.
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These include colonial fossorial rodents (marmots, ground squirrels) large birds of prey, and phytophagous insects (grasshoppers).
Kazakh steppe
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Burrows which have been abandoned may be used for shelter by bats, ground squirrels, hares, cats, civets, hyenas, jackals, porcupines, monitor lizards, owls and warthogs.
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Watch for small mammals such as chickarees, marmots, and rock and golden-mantled ground squirrels.
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The northern Idaho ground squirrel lives in dry, rocky meadows surrounded by forests of ponderosa pine or Douglas fir.
