prairie squirrel

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the Richardson ground squirrel, Spermophilus richardsonii.

Quotations

1872

No sound broke the stillness except the chirp of the gopher, or prairie squirrel, running to his hole in the ground.

1955

The prairie gopher rarely, if ever, drinks water, a special provision of Nature causing the starchy food in the stomach to be converted into liquid.