http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/28/researchers-induce-hibernation-in-squirrels-but-only-when-the-times-right/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Wed, 23 May 2012 19:57:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/28/researchers-induce-hibernation-in-squirrels-but-only-when-the-times-right/comment-page-1/#comment-1312561 Crow Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:46:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=30689#comment-1312561 Hey, if sailors can come up with "sun dogs" there's no problem with prairie dogs. Hey, if sailors can come up with “sun dogs” there’s no problem with prairie dogs.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/28/researchers-induce-hibernation-in-squirrels-but-only-when-the-times-right/comment-page-1/#comment-1301135 Naveed Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:43:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=30689#comment-1301135 John, They look like squirrels. They are a similar size. enough said. John, They look like squirrels. They are a similar size. enough said.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/28/researchers-induce-hibernation-in-squirrels-but-only-when-the-times-right/comment-page-1/#comment-1295971 John Lerch Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:32:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=30689#comment-1295971 Don't want to be picky--but aren't all or most ground squirrels actually woodchucks? Ahh just looked it up, ground squirrels and woodchucks are both marmots and indeed they are in the squirrel family. But the only ground squirrel I didn't first think was some kind of woodchuck was the chipmunk. I wonder what idiot ancestor first called them ground squirrels rather than something woodchuck or something marmot. And what idiot called them prairie DOGS? Don’t want to be picky–but aren’t all or most ground squirrels actually woodchucks?
Ahh just looked it up, ground squirrels and woodchucks are both marmots and indeed they are in the squirrel family. But the only ground squirrel I didn’t first think was some kind of woodchuck was the chipmunk. I wonder what idiot ancestor first called them ground squirrels rather than something woodchuck or something marmot. And what idiot called them prairie DOGS?

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