Mountain Pocket Gopher

Thomomys monticola

Class

Mammalia

Order

rodentia

Family

geomyidae

Genus

thomomys

The Mountain Pocket Gopher is a small species of rodent living in meadows and rocky slopes of forests in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. They tend to live solitary lives in expansive underground burrows. They typically eat roots, tubers, and some plants above ground. 

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