Small mammals of Utah

***Dedicated to the memory of Antelope Island's favorite daughter--Whisper.

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Chipmunk, Rabbit and Squirrel (Rodentia)

White-tailed Antelope Squirrel (Ammospermophilus leucurus) - in Clear Creek Wildlife Management Area, 2-26-05

White-tailed Antelope Squirrel - with peanut, 2-26-05

Uinta Chipmunk (Tamias Umbrinus) - lounging in the old easy chair.

Yellow-bellied Marmot (Marmota flaviventris) - male posing on a rock for his centerfold photo.

Yellow-bellied Marmot - female searching for food while the "male model" is posing across the road.

Common Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) - at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

Utah Prairie Dog (Cynomys parvidens) - you can't see me because I'm hiding behind a weed.
Cottontail Rabbit - in Southern Utah © Dori Williams, 6-28-05

Desert Cottontail Rabbit (Sylvilagus audubonii) - posing at Antelope Island's visitors center.
Black-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus californicus) - Mr. Big Ears of the desert West © Dori Williams, 7-11-05
Rock Squirrel (Spermophilus variegatus)- in Southern Utah © Dori Williams, 6-28-05

Uinta Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus armatus) - eating a cracker at Silver Lake, Brighton, Utah.

Deer and Pronghorn Antelope

Bambi 2 - another fawn on Antelope Island hiding in the long grass
Bambi - fawn watching the photographer at Garr Ranch on Antelope Island
Whisper - sweet tame deer on Antelope Island enjoying the grass near the barn. She ran free.
Whisper 2 - a visitor was scared silly when he came around this wagon and saw Whisper there. It was so funny!
Whisper 3 - Whisper following me around the island while I shoot some photos

Fox (Canidae)

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) - taking home the bacon at Powder Mountain, Utah (skiing area)
Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) - taken in their back yard in Bloomington, Utah © Dori and Pat Williams

Other Mammals

Badger (Taxidea taxus) - cubs peeking out of the den near Promontory Point, Utah
Coyote (Canis latrans) - walking across the ice at Antelope Island on a sunny winter morning
Coyote - listening for varmints underneath the snow.
Short-tailed Weasel (Mustela erminea) - popped up out of a pipe on the trail I was following

Short-tailed Weasel (Mustela erminea) - trying to cross our path at Jordanelle wetlands.

Bats (Chiroptera)

This work by Carol Davis (birdbrain@amazingnature.us) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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*** After many years of sharing spaces with the caretakers and volunteers at Garr Ranch on Antelope Island, Whisper was found badly injured one morning.
She had a broken leg and some coyotes were attacking her. She was saved by the volunteers who had just shown up to work. They took her down to the
springhouse and waited until the rangers came and could put her down. It was a sad day for everyone who knew the spunky little girl. I talked to the volunteers
one day and they said she was a spoiled child but they missed her terribly. They told me how one time there was a big old thunderstorm coming in from the
south and she came running in from somewhere on the island and hid in the barn until the storm was over and then she raced out again. They laughed when
the told the story. Even after she was gone you would sometimes see one of her offspring just resting in the dark spaces of the barn.

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