Richardson's Ground Squirrel (Urocitellus richardsonii) near Lake Chaplin Saskatchewan, Canada. Photographed on 30 July 2009.www.inaturalist.org/observations/53418631
Female with young based on her naked swollen teats. These Prairie Dogs have come under threat from a combination of over hunting(many a red-neck likes to pass their time "shootin potguts",which they don't eat,and just leave to rot in the sun),conversion of steppe to agricultural land or in recent years real estate development , and the introduced sylvatic plague. They are listed as threatened under the U.S. endangered species act,and endangered by th IUCN, and it is now a felony to shoot these "potguts", although that doesn't stop it from happening. They also are the only terrestrial vertebrate endemic to Utah
Came upon this sad sight on the way to Jogi gundi falls, Agumbe.This beautiful animal suffered a slow and agonizing death entangled on a barbed wire fence. It is a shame this animal had to die this way. :-(