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Common Name

Souslik

Scientific Name

Spermophilus citellus

More Clues to ID

This little ground squirrel lives in central/eastern Europe and may remind you of the North American prairie dog

Also called the Ziesel, Siesel, or European Ground Squirrel, this little rodent lives in communal underground burrows, just like prarie dogs and meerkats

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Europäischer Ziesel beim Schloss Orth Nationalparkzentrum

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2018-05-27_AT_Wien_22_Donaustadt,_Blumengärten_Hirschstetten,_Spermophilus_citellus_(48482113012)

2017-04-29_AT_Wien_22_Donaustadt,_Blumengärten_Hirschstetten,_Spermophilus_citellus_(51395343633)

2017-06-11_AT_Wien_22_Donaustadt,_Blumengärten_Hirschstetten,_Spermophilus_citellus_(50372359181)

2018-05-27_AT_Wien_22_Donaustadt,_Blumengärten_Hirschstetten,_Spermophilus_citellus_(48481959911)

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Manfred Werner/Tsui - CC by-sa 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Korecky, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Korecky, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Manfred Werner/Tsui - CC by-sa 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Korecky, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Korecky, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Korecky, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Korecky, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Manfred Werner/Tsui - CC by-sa 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Korecky, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Пламен Димитров, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jiří Sedláček, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bouke ten Cate, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
T. Kebert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, species assessors and the authors of the spatial data., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
T. Kebert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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