Here they sleep, stay out of bad weather, and raise their young. Many squirrels live in burrows under the ground instead of in the trees. They look a lot like tree squirrels, except their tails are often smaller and less furry. Some variety of ground-dwelling squirrel is found almost everywhere. Other squirrels that live in the ground are named chipmunks, prairie dogs, woodchucks, and marmots.
Chipmunks are among the smallest of the ground-type squirrels, some weighing only an ounce or two.
They always have stripes on their faces and their sides. Prairie dogs aren't dogs at all. They don't look like dogs, they' don't act like dogs, because they really are squirrels. They live in large groups called prairie dog towns and dig big burrows in the ground. Members of the marmot family are the biggest ground-dwelling squirrels.