tassel-eared squirrel

noun

Definition 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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1916

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