 Abert's squirrel

Abert's squirrel or the tassel-eared squirrel ("Sciurus aberti") is a tree squirrel in the genus "Sciurus" native to the southern Rocky Mountains from the United States to the northern Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico, with concentrations found in Arizona, the Grand Canyon, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.It is closely associated with, and largely confined to, cool dry ponderosa pine forests.