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Common Name:Squirrel, Harris' Antelope
Scientific Name:Ammospermophilus harrisii
Family:Sciuridae
Area:White Tank Mountains Regional Park, Arizona
Date:January 23, 2015

Harris' Antelope Squirrel is one of three kinds of ground squirrels found in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. You can easily tell it from the other two by the white stripe on its side.


Buckskin Mountain State Park, Arizona --- January 9, 2011


Lake Havasu State Park, Arizona - - -February 5, 2009

Reference:Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum / National Adubon Society Field guide to Mammals by Whitaker