UND (Flickertails) Fighting Sioux Traditional Cache
UND (Flickertails) Fighting Sioux
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When I was researching "Flickertails" I came across reference that the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux were called the Flickertails until 1930, thus the name of the cache.
This is another in a series about what I did a kid growing up in the West Sioux area of Sioux Falls. A mile to the north is one of my caches called 'Bird Cage Full of Gophers' - which is a story about catching striped gophers. They are everywhere and we have all seen them.
The cache is about Flickertails - they are half way in size between a striped gopher and a prairie dog. Here is some info on these guys:
Richardson's Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus richardsonii), or the Flickertail, is a North American ground squirrel in the genus Spermophilus. Like a number of other ground squirrels, they are sometimes called "Dak Rats" or "gophers", though this name belongs more strictly to the pocket gophers of family Geomyidae.
Typical adults are about 30 cm long. Weights vary greatly with time of year and with location: at emergence from hibernation the squirrels weigh between 200 and 400 grams, but by the time they hibernate again this may have risen to nearly 750 grams; males are slightly larger and heavier than females on average. They are dark brown on the upper side and tan underneath. The tail is shorter and less bushy than in other ground squirrels, and the external ears are so short as to look more like holes in the animal's head. Behavior is more like that of a prairie dog than a typical ground squirrel. The tail is constantly trembling, so the animal is sometimes called the "Flickertail".
So, here is your assignment - find the cache and sign the log. Once you have done that - stand very quietly near the big sign and scan the grass parking area for the many flickertails that live in this parking area. Take a picture and post it.
I have travelled a lot and this is one of only two flikertail towns that I know of - I will put another cache in at the other town soon.
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