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That's a chipmunk, not a squirrel.


I'm not an expert on squirrels, but that could be a ground squirrel[1] of some sort. Some varieties of ground squirrel look a lot like chipmunks.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_squirrel


A quick search for "striped ground squirrel" turned up only one variety, the thirteen-lined ground squirrel. The animal in the photo has stripes like a chipmunk.


Look for stripes on the face: without them, it's probably a squirrel. Both ground squirrels and chipmunks have body stripes, so the face is a better indicator.

http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/facts/chipmunk_vs_...

http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-squirre...


You're right, there's no stripes on its face. I stand corrected.

Sadly, that was my most upvoted comment in ~9.5 years on this site.


Ahh, I was about to unvote you, but now I can't bear to do it. Keep my upvote.


To my (admittedly untrained) eye, the picture looks a lot like an Indian palm squirrel (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Indian_P...) – which does have stripes on its back.


That's not a chipmunk. This is a chipmunk.

http://pmdvod.nationalgeographic.com/NG_Video_DEV/935/311/le...


All chipmunks are squirrels.


I'll be damned. This should be squirrel fact #1.


Family Sciuridae! So they are, I didn't know that.


A Chipmunk is a type of Squirrel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel



My University's (Minnesota) mascot is a gopher, but the physical mascot is a chipmunk/squirrel (debated) name Goldy Gopher - but it's definitely not a gopher. These rodents can be confusing!


Speaking of gopher... could this be a way to get images on gopher:// pages?


It's a webpage, not an image.


It's both! That's the whole point - the same sequence of bytes can be interpreted as either an HTML web page or a JPEG image, and the page itself demonstrates both at the same time.




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