#cape ground squirrel

[sitting-on-me-bum]

“He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”

Cape ground squirrel

Jim Burns

North American Nature Photography Awards

[antiqueanimals]

Geosciurus inauris. Struik Pocket Guides for South Africa: Mammals. Written by John Skinner. Illustrated by Penny Meakin. 1988.

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Cape ground squirrel (Geosciurus inauris)

Photo by Achim Winkler

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972.

1.) Forest giant squirrel (Protoxerus stangeri)

2.) Ebian's palm squirrel (Epixerus ebii)

3.) Zanj sun squirrel (Heliosciurus undulatus)

4.) Black-eared squirrel (Nannosciurus melanotis)

5.) Swinhoe's striped squirrel (Tamiops swinhoei)

6.) Perny's long-nosed squirrel (Dremomys pernyi)

7.) Three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis)

8.) African pygmy squirrel (Myosciurus pumilio)

9.) Congo rope squirrel (Funisciurus congicus)

10.) Striped bush squirrel (Paraxerus flavovittis)

11.) Malayan giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor)

12.) Cape ground squirrel (Geosciurus inauris)

[lenka-lostinpictures]

Cape ground squirrel. April 2019.

[godblessyoublackemperor]

St. Ungo the Well-Endowed by `ursulav

St. Ungo the Well-Endowed is possibly unique in the history of hagiography, in that he was beatified based on the testimony of eighty-six different women,* who all claimed that yes, definitely, miraculous, hoo boy, you have NO idea, seriously, without ever saying exactly what the miracle in question had been. This has baffled researchers for centuries. Today St. Ungo is the patron of single women and, apparently demonstrating the cryptic and arbitrary nature of sainthood, bratwurst.