Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Gopher is A gopher is any small burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae, native to North America. The name is often also used for ground squirrels (family Sciuridae), particularly Richardson's Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus richardsonii. A "gopher" is a humorous term for a junior worker, usually in an office - someone who can be sent to "go for" things Hence, the Gopher protocol on the Internet was one that would go for information The Gophers is a British animation series. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.