Golden Mantle Ground Squirrel - Trust

Golden Mantle Ground Squirrel. Hard to figure animals out, but I think when a wild animal contrary to the instinct of running and hiding, approaches us, even with the offer of food, it demonstrates trust.

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[TheLavalois]

Are these squirrels easy to tame? Have you met him for the first time?

[JCVdude]

@TheLavalois There were about 3 of them running around this area and this was the first time we saw them. However, this area gets lot of people walking/riding bikes so they are probably used to people.

[FrekeOne]

that's like a 5 star squirrel takeaway

[JCVdude]

@FrekeOne Hahahahah!

[voiceofelijah2012]

What's bad is that if people continue to feed these animals, they will end of depending on humans. It's cute and all, but that's not a good thing.

[JCVdude]

@voiceofelijah2012 You could be right.

[TheFutureLooksGrimm]

So cute. What is the difference between these and ground Squirrels?

[TheLavalois]

It really demonstrates trust as you said.

[TheLavalois]

Where have you found that ground squirrel? is there a lot of them?

[kfgflynn]

effing hate when people feed squirrels. Selfish pricks.

[hiverhythm]

See a lot of people will do this, and then KICK the squirrel as hard as they can. Then be like LOL and post it to their facebook. I'm glad this video didn't end that way.

WTF why are they so friendly. Must be because they're from Canada.

[JCVdude]

@BuschTukkerMan I was up there last week and rode the 12k with my daughter. When we stopped to sight-see this little guy ran out over our feet and when I put my hand down with NO food (that time) he did nibble my finger. He was very gentle tho.