A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Thomonys bottae
Dear Seema, take a look at the pics bellow, I believe it's the same species
http://www.loupiote.com/photos/193915099...
http://www.earth-cards.com/bottas_pocket...
http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/jun/papr/...
http://sfcitizen.com/blog/tag/bottas-poc...
What a great spotting Seema! This is so strange, i can't find a flat-faced rodent with teeth that big.
This is NOTHING like any squirrels around, not a california ground squirrel! at all. I'm still saying an invasive species. Looks Asian or maybe South American. Any Rodent specialists out there help, I'm very curious!
Or it could be this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botta%27s_p...
(Yeah, probably that's the one!)
How about he California ground squirrels?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_...
very true...there was a big colony of burrows.....saw several of these critters active at work...distinct mounds of soils in the grassy lawn..
Wouldn't want him digging up my garden, looks a little viscous. Maybe invasive?
Spotted on Jan 4, 2013
Submitted on Jan 4, 2013
