...is a Richardson's ground squirrel. This one posed for the camera near Barons, Alberta. They've really been tearing up the prairie down here in the south the past few years.
I remember when I was a kid and the village offered a bounty of 5 cents for a gopher tail. Because the clerk didn't want to have anything to do with these gopher tails, we had ways and means of making one tail into two or three. Also had a bounty on crows feet.
He better be careful or he'll end up in the Torrington Gopher Museum.
ReplyDeleteI remember when I was a kid and the village offered a bounty of 5 cents for a gopher tail. Because the clerk didn't want to have anything to do with these gopher tails, we had ways and means of making one tail into two or three. Also had a bounty on crows feet.
ReplyDeleteOne into three...that's a profitable business plan. (Paid more than collecting bottles.)
DeleteCute but destructive.
ReplyDeleteThat they are.
DeleteWell, who knew? I certainly didn't know there was a squirrel named after my husband's family!
ReplyDeleteRichardson's ground squirrels are famous here on the prairie.
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