#0433 · 🦊 mammals

South African Ground Squirrel

🇳🇱 Kaapse Grondeekhoorn ·Geosciurus inauris

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The Cape ground squirrel or South African ground squirrel ( Geosciurus inauris ) is found in most of the drier parts of southern Africa from South Africa, through to Botswana, and into Namibia, including Etosha National Park.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,545iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,545 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann in 1780 (246 years ago).