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tassel-eared squirrel
nounDefinition of tassel-eared squirrel
: abert squirrel
The tassel-eared squirrel, as it is also known, eats the young twigs of ponderosa and makes its nests in the higher branches.— Steven J. Bissel and Russell Davis, Colorado Outdoors, September/October 1990
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