Photo by Melissa Brandts
By Susan Krashinsky
Like a starlet plucked from anonymity, like the moment Norma Jean became Marilyn, an Alberta ground squirrel who has languished in obscurity in Banff National Park has finally found its moment in the sun.
An earnest Canadian rodent turned Internet celebrity this week, when vacationer Melissa Brandts submitted this photo to National Geographic. The magazine posted the shot to its online Daily Dozen gallery .
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