Ground Squirrel Doing a Good Deed

This ground squirrel is eating some fresh leaves of Bristly Oxtongue, one of the nasty thistle weeds that abounds in the park later in the season.  If every squirrel ate every green shoot of every thistle, the park would be much improved.  

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