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Standing His Ground Golden-mantled ground squirrels are, most of the time, confused with chipmunks. However, you can easily tell them apart by their stripes. If the stripes reach their face, they are considered a chipmunk. For this ground squirrel, he has no stripes on his face, just a white eye ring. I enjoyed watching this little fella trying to identify what we were! (taken on the Natural Bridge Trail, YNP) Callospermophilus lateralis,Golden-mantled ground squirrel,Yellowstone National Park Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Standing His Ground

Golden-mantled ground squirrels are, most of the time, confused with chipmunks. However, you can easily tell them apart by their stripes. If the stripes reach their face, they are considered a chipmunk. For this ground squirrel, he has no stripes on his face, just a white eye ring. I enjoyed watching this little fella trying to identify what we were! (taken on the Natural Bridge Trail, YNP)

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    WildFlower
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    It's good to know the difference. Posted 10 years ago
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    morpheme
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    lol… the infamous Cascades version strikes again. When I saw this was an intro, I thought to myself, I could have sworn I uploaded a golden mantled ground squirrel a couple months ago and so I had, but it was a *Cascades* Golden Mantled Ground squirrel… sometimes I feel like we are a bit of a geographic island around here with all of our wacky sub-species and species that are just in this area. Even our squirrels and deer just have to be different :p Posted 10 years ago
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    SaraBethWilliamson
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    I totally know what you mean! Identifying species can be such a fun, yet hard thing to do. It's crazy how one small difference can change the name. Posted 10 years ago

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The Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel

The golden-mantled ground squirrel is a ground squirrel native to western North America. It is distributed in British Columbia and Alberta through the western United States to California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

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Uploaded Dec 16, 2014. Captured Jun 30, 2014 17:33.
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  • Canon EOS REBEL T1i
  • f/5.6
  • 1/256s
  • ISO320
  • 250mm