"The thirteen-lined ground squirrel is actually fairly common across a lot of the United States. However, it has kind of shrunk in the area that it occupies," Sasse said. It used to be very common ...

The thirteen-lined ground squirrel is larger, about 6-7 inches and has smaller ears, and of course don’t forget the 13 stripes or lines on its back. It’s a dead give-away.

Stephen H. Scheck, Eugene D. Fleharty, Subterranean Behavior of the Adult Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus), The American Midland ...

A 13-lined ground squirrel eats foxtail grass seeds. Probably the most famous of their ranks is the black-tailed prairie dog, which forms massive “towns” in the central Great Plains states.

The thirteen-lined squirrel is from 4 1/2 to 6 1/2 inches long, with a tail that is 2 1/2 to 5 inches long. The body is light to dark brown, with 13 stripes down its back.

E. Gus Cothran, John L. Hunt, Troy L. Best, SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN THE THIRTEEN-LINED GROUND SQUIRREL (ICTIDOMYS TRIDECEMLINEATUS), The Southwestern Naturalist, Vol. 62, No. 3 (September 2017), pp.

With a recent sighting in Missouri, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is encouraging people to report any sightings in Arkansas. Sen. Mitch McConnell will not seek reelection in 2026 Digging ...

A study published in Science today (January 27) offers a clue to this phenomenon: bacteria residing in the gut of thirteen-lined ground squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) convert urea, a molecule ...

A 13-lined ground squirrel, to be exact. People often confuse ground squirrels for other animals, Nagai said, because they burrow under the ground like a gopher.

A team of molecular and physiology specialists at the Yale University School of Medicine has uncovered some of the hibernating secrets of thirteen-lined ground squirrels, and have partly explained ...