White-tailed antelope squirrel

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White-tailed antelope squirrel
By Jennifer Nixon
Animal Diversity Web
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

Terrestrial Biomes:
desert or dune; chaparral.

Food Habits:
Common foods eaten include: seeds, green vegetation, including grasses, mesquite, acacia, yucca, ephedra Mormon tea, Joshua tree, evening primrose, storksbill, blackbrush and opuntia cactus, fruits, invertebrates, carrion.

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