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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Idaho Ground Squirrel

For Students 4th - 8th
The Idaho Ground Squirrel is the only mammal endemic to Idaho. One subspecies, Spermophilus brunneus brunneus, lives only in about two dozen mountain meadows, and in 1998, biologists counted only 500 of them. Learn more about the...