. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE SQUIRRELS—MARMOT. 315 The care of Ground Squirrels presents no difficul- ties, and they thrive well on the simplest diet of grain and fruit. THE MARMOTS. The Marmots (Arctomyind),which form the second sub-order, differ from the Squirrels proper by having. THE BURUNDUK. TMs animal, otherwise ksowri as the Striped Siberian Ground Squirrel, is the Old World relative of the American Chipmunk. It li- -s in the woods and subsists on seeds and berries
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE SQUIRRELS—MARMOT. 315 The care of Ground Squirrels presents no difficul- ties, and they thrive well on the simplest diet of grain and fruit. THE MARMOTS. The Marmots (Arctomyind),which form the second sub-order, differ from the Squirrels proper by having. THE BURUNDUK. TMs animal, otherwise ksowri as the Striped Siberian Ground Squirrel, is the Old World relative of the American Chipmunk. It li- -s in the woods and subsists on seeds and berries, which it convey: .o its mouth in true Squirrel-fashion. ( Tamias slrialus.) a clumsier, stouter body, and a short tail, and also in their dentition. Range and The Marmots are found in central Habits of the Europe, northern Asia and North Marmots. America, in considerable variety. The majority of them inhabit level country, but some exist in the very highest mountains of their native homes. Their haunts are dry, clayey, sandy or rocky localities, grassy plains and steppes, fields and gardens, and only the mountain Marmots prefer the grazing country beyond the limit of forest- growth or isolated ravines and rocky valleys be- tween the snow boundary and the forests. All species have permanent residences and never mi- grate. They build deep, subterranean burrows and live there in communities sometimes composed of astonishingly great numbers. Some have more than one burrow, according to the season or the business they have on hand, while others stay in the same burrow year after year. They are animals of the ground, lively and quick in their movements, but slower than the Squirrels; several species of Mar- mots, however, impress one as being very clumsy. Grass, herbs, tender shoots, young plants, seeds, field produce, berries, roots, tubers and bulbs go to form their food, and only those few which can, with much labor, climb trees or bushes, eat young leaves and buds from the tr
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