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A Baby Squirrel: Tree squirrels, like ground squirrels, are hardy in captivity and make excellent pets when it is possible to capture them as babies. An adult seldom becomes tame, and since it has been free in the wild state it will not be happy confined in a cage. A baby squirrel will know only the life associated with the owner. It will become gentle and make a most satisfactory pet. However, pet squirrels must be housed and trained alone.
China supplies lamb, kid, badger, baronduki (burunduki), civet cat, kolinsky, leopard, marmot, lynx, weasel, raccoon, pony, and squirrel. From Australia and New Zealand come rabbit, kangaroo, wallaby, opossum, and wombat. Japan produces mink, squirrel, and weasel. Africa furnishes leopard, zebra, monkey, seal, lamb, and cheetah.
The "whistling* marmot (Arctomys) and the prairie-dog (Cynomys), a rodent, make themselves audible here and the pikas or "calling* hares (Lagomys princeps). Other rodents are the lemming mouse (Synap-tomys cpoperi) and the jumping mouse (Zapus kudsonius). Better known to the public are the raccoon (Procyon),.flying squirrel (Sciurop-terus), ground squirrel (Tamias). The pouched marmot (Spermophilus) and the glutton (Gulo) are found here.
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