Rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel

Usage examples of suslik.

On one occasion, when Ayla noticed Wolf striking a pose that caused her to look closer, she saw one of the large dark brown predatory birds land near its nest on the ground, bringing a suslik to its young.

Suddenly the large, graceful bird folded his powerful wings and dropped rapidly to the bank of the river, then swooped up again with a large suslik hanging from its talons.

As the Lion Camp hiked overland, the ubiquitous holes of spotted susliks were too numerous to count, and in some areas they bad to wend their way around hundreds of grass-covered mounds, two to three feet high, each a community of steppe marmots.

The graceful birds usually detected the unsuspecting susliks while soaring in the air, but the kite could also hover like a kestrel, the native falcon, or fly very low to take its prey by surprise.

He finished by affixing pairs of long feathers, found near the river, from the numerous white-tailed eagles, falcons, and black kites that lived in the region feeding on the abundance of susliks and other small rodents.

The small furry creatures were an example that Ayla noticed, although during the freezing season, the mice, dormice, voles, susliks, and hamsters were seldom seen, except when she broke through a nest for the vegetable foods they had stored.

A few susliks ventured out of their holes and whistled in alarm, seeing us.

Outside, the susliks had stopped their whistling, snug in their burrows.

Susliks were the preferred prey of black kites, though the long-winged hawks also fed on other rodents, and carrion and insects as well.