California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi)
The California ground squirrel lives in the western USA They are living in burrows which they excavate themselves. They are hardly go away more than 50 m from i...
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The California ground squirrel lives in the western USA They are living in burrows which they excavate themselves. They are hardly go away more than 50 m from it. Rattlesnakes are their major enemy. But they have a clever strategy: They super-heat and swish around its tail, which makes the squirrel too big for the snake, which works with infra-red radiation. The message to the snake is easy: I am not dangerous and too big for you to eat me.
Other predators are eagles, raccoons, foxes, badgers and weasels.
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Other predators are eagles, raccoons, foxes, badgers and weasels.
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