Fuerteventura, Canary Islands - the so-called 'chipmunk' of the island hills, a North African or Barbary ground squirrel

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Fuerteventura, Canary Islands - the so-called 'chipmunk' of the island hills, a North African or Barbary ground squirrel tame enough to accept food from tourists. Ardilla moruna or Atlantoxerus getulus species, introduced to the island in the 1960s and now naturalised with around 300,000 population.

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Photo credit: © Shirley Kilpatrick / Alamy / Afripics
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