Père David's rock squirrel

Père David's rock squirrel, Sciurotamias davidianus, also called the Chinese rock squirrel, is a rodent in the family Sciuridae that is endemic to China, where it is found widely in the rocky habitats of the eastern and central parts of the country. It is a largely terrestrial squirrel, dull olive-grey overall with paler underparts, a distinct pale eye-ring and a dark patch on each cheek. It has sometimes been confused with Pallas's squirrel, which is rather different and very variable in colour, and an introduced population in Belgium was first mistakenly identified as this species. Alphonse Milne-Edwards described it in 1867, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature rates it Least Concern.