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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

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

For Students 4th - 8th
The Mohave Ground Squirrel occupies a relatively tiny part of the Mohave Desert and is rarely seen since it spends more than half the year underground in a burrow. Estivation, the hot-weather equivalent of hibernation, and hibernation...