The groundhog, Marmota monax, is a stout rodent related to squirrels and marmots ... One lives above ground; one lives below. Another important gopher vs. groundhog difference relates to where ...

Both the 13-striped ground squirrel and the chipmunk have stripes on their backs, bushy tails, and buckteeth like Goldy. A gopher, however, has a long, rounded body that looks like an oversized field ...

The "pseudo-spring" of the last week of February brought about many happenings in nature. After the first three weeks of the month that averaged a temperature of only about 4 degrees above zero, the ...

California ground squirrels have been found to ingest such food sources as bird eggs and nestlings, gophers and rats. But direct evidence of hunting behavior is rare, the study says — which is ...

It was actually gopher number three. I have been keeping an eye out for gophers — Richardson’s ground squirrels — for a few weeks now. The weather, of course, hasn’t been very conducive to ...

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said this week at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) convention that ...