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What is this juvenile mammal?
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Posted by Scott111 (My Page) on Sat, Aug 20, 11 at 21:31
| Found this baby critter in SE Utah in the sandstone slickrock. Looks a bit like a baby squirrel but it is much too big. |
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| How big was it? Looks like a baby ground squirrel but could be a baby marmot if it is a lot bigger. There are some big squirrels in Northern AZ - Southern Utah. |
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| God bless him, it looks like a fox squirrel. Not the red fox squirrels but the one called "Sherman's Fox Squirrel". I've raised a few of them by hand, years ago when I did a lot of wild animal rehab. They are precious. They are soooo much easier to raise than regular squirrels because they are not spastic. And they are probably 4 times the size of a regular grey squirrel. If you want to raise it, use goats milk as formula, NOT any of the puppy/kitten formulas. All those forumlas have been "improved" and now if you try to use any of the pup/kit formulas for wild babies, they will die from soft bone breakage. |
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