"A Bull Snake Encounter With Young Ground Squirrels" by Orrin J. Rongstad

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A Bull Snake Encounter With Young Ground Squirrels

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Orrin J. Rongstad, University of Wisconsin

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Publication Date

1968

Keywords

Bullsnake; Thirteen-lined ground squirrel; Snake attacks; Cedar Creek Natural History Area (Minn.)

Abstract

Apparent results of on encounter of a bull snake, Pituophis catenifer, with a litter of three thirteen-lined ground squirrels, Citellus tridecemlineatus, suggests that bull snakes may have eliminated young ground squirrels from a 3-acre lawn of the Cedar Creek Natural History Area at Bethel, Minn., during the summer of 1967.

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Rongstad, O. J. (1968). A Bull Snake Encounter With Young Ground Squirrels. Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science, Vol. 35 No.2, 95-96.
Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/jmas/vol35/iss2/9

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