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1. 

   Daniela

    /  March 24, 2016

   It’s a ground squirrel.

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2. 

   KateH

    /  March 24, 2016

   Not sure how the lines are counted, but I think it’s the 13-lined ground squirrel. There’s a seven and a thirteen, I’m pretty sure. This one is Fred McNamara, and he’s a construction engineer.

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3. 

   Daniela

    /  March 24, 2016

   I meant ground chipmunk

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4. 

   mikken

    /  March 24, 2016

   Prairie dog? Spotted striped prairie dog? Spiped prairie dog? Strotted prairie dog?

   There’s a reason no one has ever come to me to name an animal.

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5. 

   Karen

    /  March 25, 2016

   It’s a ground squirrel. Pretty common where I live.

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6. 

   YesBiscuit

    /  March 25, 2016

   ANSWER TIME

   This is a 13 lined ground squirrel. Apparently common, although I’ve never seen one. I like all the other names Wiki has for this animal:

   The thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus), also known as the striped gopher, leopard ground squirrel, squinney, and as the leopard-spermophile in Audubon’s day, is a ground squirrel. It is widely distributed over grasslands and prairies of North America.

   Please call me Squinney going forward.

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7. 

   KateH

    /  March 25, 2016

   Wow! I actually got one right. Well, I’m best at identifying mammals, and you so often put these amazingly cool invertebrates up to test us. I appreciate learning about them, but I so often know little to nothing about them.

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8. 

   Daniela

    /  March 28, 2016

   you mean I got it right???? and here I thought I was being funny

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