The real name

[GRIZ]

 This one should be easy. It's our state animal (MN).

[jigglestick]

that is a trick question, but i will let it ride for a while to see where it goes.

in the mean time, have yer youngin's work on this....maybe it is suitable for us oldin's as well?
http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hinfo/StateFair3/stateflower.htm

[Dr.Bob]

Its the sidehill gougar ain't it ???.

[GRIZ]

that is a trick question, but i will let it ride for a while to see where it goes.

Jiggle are you trying to say u don't have a clue? ???

[GRIZ]

TTT

[dogstyler]

O.K. If only to reveal the trick... I'm saying Whitetail.

[GRIZ]

No trick involved Just seeing if anyone knows it's real name. Not the sientific one of spermophilus tridecemlineatus. Just the real name that it's called.

OK jiggle heres ur clue.


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[Mayfly]

Minnesota Gophers!

[jigglestick]

one website lists the mn state animal as NONE.
this one visits the attempts by the state at naming a state animal.

ANIMAL/MAMMAL:
Legislation has been offered designating both the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus borealis), proposed at least eight times, and the Eastern timber wolf (Canis lupus), proposed at least six times, as the official Minnesota animal or mammal.

   
 
White-Tailed Deer
1989 HF573/SF152
SF41
1988 HF2107/SF1623
1987 HF982/SF179
1987 SF1602
1985 SF1426
1977 HF749
1973 HF142/SF291
1971 SF250
   Eastern Timber Wolf
2000 HF3508/SF3648
1989 SF288
 
1987 HF1663/SF1039
1985 SF1316
1973 SF340
1969 SF104
 


In addition, amendments have been introduced to designate the 13-lined ground squirrel (Citellus tridecemlineatus) as the state animal/mammal instead of the white-tailed deer. Such amendments were introduced in 1977 (attempt to amend HF 749 on page 1242 of the 1977-1978 House Journal) and in 1973 (attempt to amend HF142 on page 290 of the 1973-1974 House Journal).




In 2000, Minnesota schoolchildren voted on whether the state mammal should be the wolf, the white-tailed deer or the gopher. The wolf received 208 votes; the deer got 129 votes and the gopher got 80.

A newspaper clipping from 1973 documents a citizen proposal to designate the wood tick as the official state animal. ?If it were ? since the loon is already the official state bird, we?d be the loon-and-tick state ?? (St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 18, 1973, page 4).

[GRIZ]

Ah yes it was a 13 lined ground squirrel. I don't know where ya got the scientific name as when it differs as to the one I got off the net. The one you have looks more right anyhow. We might not have an official state animal but I always thought it was the gopher. ???