Ann & Steve Toon / Photographer Ann Toon photographing Cape ground squirrels (Xerus inauris) Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa, January 2016. Model released.

Ann & Steve Toon / Ground squirrel (Xerus inauris) Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa Non-ex.

Ann & Steve Toon / Ground squirrel (Xerus inauris) Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa. Non-ex.

Ann & Steve Toon / Baby ground squirrel (Xerus inauris) using its tail for shade, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. Non-ex.

Vincent Grafhorst / Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris), Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana

Fabio Liverani / African ground squirrel (Xerus sp.) looking inquisitive with arid mountain landscape in the background. Fuerteventura, Canary Isles, Spain, September 2007

John Waters / African Ground Squirrel {Xerus inaurus} two adults fighting, jumping in territorial dispute, Kalahari, North Cape, South Africa. Dove flying away.

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris) feeding, Mountain Zebra National Park, South Africa

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris) feeding, Tswalu Game Reserve, South Africa

Richard Du Toit / Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris) feeding, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa

Ann & Steve Toon / Ground squirrels (Xerus inauris) suckling young, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa.

Ann & Steve Toon / Ground squirrels (Xerus inauris) female nteracting with juvenile, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa.