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anything on life span?

Are they really eaten by Jays? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.59.1.146 (talk) 16:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe in the "Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel" on account of it's name being too long. Therefore, I wish to mark this article for deletion.

Did you even follow the weblink to the UICN? Surprisingly, they do believe in the animal... Some pages on google too... --summentier 14:11, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image[edit]

I took this image and uploaded it, it's available for addition to this article.

--EJFox 13:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC) I created the Other Images section[reply]

I added an existing image, the image suggested plus an image of mine. I linked to the wiki commons page that has numerous pictures of this squirrel. I added some blank lines under the main article to keep text from other sections from moving into the main article.

On the images I added I did not add links to the location descriptions. I wasn't sure what wiki standards are with respect to this but I thought the links to the locations wasn't necessary, but I left it in the captions that went to the first image in case it is wiki standard to do that.

It would have been nice if the suggested image had more specific information about where it was from, but I didn't find any.

Davefoc (talk) 03:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since Wikipedia's not an image gallery, but Commons is, and since the Commons gallery is linked, I'm deleting the Images section here. --Justin (talk) 01:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Squeak film[edit]

Why is there no mention of Squeak the Squirrel, arguably the most famous of the golden-mantled ground squirrels? He figured out how to retrieve peanuts from a glass tube, a scientific contribution to which all the marvels of the modern age are directly attributable. Even Wikipedia itself would have been impossible to create without the ground-breaking work performed by Squeak during the halcyon days of peanut- and string-based research. Clearly, the least we can do to thank Squeak for his hard work and dedication to the promotion of science as a tool for the common good is mention him in this article. 67.68.48.148 (talk) 02:45, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Squeak may be mentioned if done so in accordance with WP:RS, WP:CITE], WP:N and other guidelines and policies. WP:TALK says "A heading should indicate what the topic is, but not communicate a specific view about it." I've changed it accordingly. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 16:11, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]