Animals That Burrow In The Ground. Wood mice dig burrows in cereal fields and similar open situations. Ground squirrels are rodents and can carry parasites and diseases.
Many mammals live in burrows. That burrow underground include chipmunks, coypu, gophers, groundhogs, ground squirrels, mice, prairie dogs, rats and voles. Other rodents like mice and rats tend to burrow in shallow ground during the day to avoid predators like cats, birds, wild dogs and foxes, and then will scavenge during the night.
Raccoons can feed on eggs laid by chickens, and some other animals, thus they can dig up eggs buried under the ground.
Burrows can be constructed into a wide variety of substrates, and can. Coyotes, badgers, and woodchucks (also known as groundhogs) also dig and use burrows, but the burrow hole tends to be larger (10 to 14 inches in diameter). The amount of dirt at the entrance of badger or ground squirrel burrows is highly variable and not a good indicator of which species excavated the burrow. Clams, crustaceans, insects, sea urchins, spiders, and worms all exhibit burrowing behavior.