I Am Here
by Christiane Schulze Art And Photography
Title
I Am Here
Artist
Christiane Schulze Art And Photography
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Digital Photography
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Copyright: Christiane Schulze
A beautiful cactus and a ground squirrel in the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.
The round-tailed ground squirrel (Xerospermophilus tereticaudus), known as "Ardill�n cola redonda" in Spanish, live in the desert of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. They are called "ground squirrels" because they burrow in loose soil, often under mesquite trees and creosote bushes.
Squirrels belong to family Sciuridae of small or medium-size rodents. The family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots (including woodchucks), flying squirrels, and prairie dogs. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and have been introduced to Australia. The earliest known squirrels date from the Eocene and are most closely related to the mountain beaver and to the dormouse among living rodent families.
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May 30th, 2014
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