Cambodian striped squirrel

The Cambodian striped squirrel (Tamiops rodolphii) is a small tree squirrel of the family Sciuridae found in eastern Thailand, Cambodia, southern Laos and southern Vietnam. Males and females look almost identical, with the same body size, fur colour and stripe pattern, so the species shows no sexual dimorphism, and unlike many squirrels it does not change colour much between seasons, keeping short light brown fur with dark and pale stripes along the back and head all year. It lives in tropical forests, shrublands and rural gardens, usually in the understory and lower canopy. It is an omnivore that feeds on flowers, insects and seeds, and it is an unusual bark gleaner, searching the vertical surfaces of tree trunks for food even though it lacks the limb adaptations that are typical of that habit. Its closest relative is the Himalayan striped squirrel (Tamiops macclellandi), which has a much larger geographic range. Like other mammals it is endothermic, and its body has bilateral symmetry.