Sentences with phrase «in prairie dog»

A variety of strategies currently are used to control outbreaks of plague, including dusting insecticides in prairie dog holes to control fleas.

Sexual dimorphism in body mass in the prairie dog varies 105 to 136 % between the sexes.

They also found that an outbreak in a prairie dog colony might go unnoticed for years, because the animals are dying underground.

After the monkeypox virus fiasco, the import of African rodents and trade in prairie dogs were banned.

Throughout their analysis of plague in prairie dogs, they concluded that such diseases may «smolder» unnoticed in a population for years, rather than jump from species to species immediately before an outbreak.

Research scientist Salkeld and Antolin, professor and chair of biology in the College of Natural Sciences, assert that the swirl of ecological factors driving plague outbreaks in prairie dogs can lend key insights into the study of zoonotic diseases.

As with respiratory disease, cardiac disease is also seen in prairie dogs.

Cognition and communication in prairie dogs.

Not exact matches

I love that time slows down and I notice things (rabbits, a fox, prairie dogs, flowers, birds) that I wouldn't see if I were speeding by in a car.

In the latest study, the team recorded the alarm calls as three similar - sized women wearing blue, yellow or green T - shirts walked past the prairie dogs 99 times.

Ultimately, the application will be limited — just selected populations of prairie dogs that are either in ferret territory or endangered themselves, such as the Utah prairie dog (C. parvidens).

SPECIAL DELIVERY Normally, plague vaccine baits might be delivered on foot — dropped by hand in the vicinity of prairie dog colonies.

The ferrets survive on a diet of mostly prairie dogs and had nearly gone extinct in the 1970s due to centuries of habitat loss, prey declines and plague.

WWF conjectures that one - quarter of this trade is illegal (at the time, selling prairie dogs was not illegal), making animal smuggling, after the drug trade, the most lucrative illegal activity in the world.

For the last 35 years, Hoogland has studied four species of prairie dogs living in grassland ecosystems within national parks or wildlife refuges in the western U.S..

Mating with more than one male increases reproductive success for female prairie dogs, despite an increase in risks.

Health investigators eventually traced the outbreak to 28 prairie dogs that had come in contact with an infected giant Gambian pouched rat while they were held together in a cage by a pet distributor in Illinois.

In the United States, plague cases tend to crop up in the bubonic form, usually among people in the American Southwest who have been exposed to prairie dogs or ground squirrels and their fleaIn the United States, plague cases tend to crop up in the bubonic form, usually among people in the American Southwest who have been exposed to prairie dogs or ground squirrels and their fleain the bubonic form, usually among people in the American Southwest who have been exposed to prairie dogs or ground squirrels and their fleain the American Southwest who have been exposed to prairie dogs or ground squirrels and their fleas.

Robert Pringle, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and co-author of the Science paper, said that the unexpected function of termites in savannas and grasslands suggests that ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound - building creatures could also have important roles in ecosystem health.

Between 10 - 20 people in the United States are infected each year from flea or rodent bites, mainly in the rural southwest where prairie dogs sometimes carry the bacterium.

Black - footed Ferret The most endangered mammal in North America, Black - footed Ferrets were thought to have gone extinct forty years ago — collateral damage of the war on prairie dogs by high - plains ranchers and farmers.

Because they eat as much as 7 percent of a ranch's forage, prairie dog eradication programs have been underway for decades in the American West.

Black - tailed are the prairie dogs normally sold in pet shops and may either be a baby caught in the wild or from a breeder.

Shortly thereafter, the species» survival was put to the test; a Sylvatic Plague epidemic swept through the local prairie dog population in 1985, infecting the population.

Dr. Rocke is currently leading a large - scale field trial in 8 western states of the U.S. to determine if oral vaccination through consumption of vaccine - laden baits prevents plague in wild prairie dogs, thus reducing the risk of disease for the endangered black - footed ferret, other animals, and possibly humans.

According to Slobodchikoff, these calls, with their individuality in response to a specific predator, imply that prairie dogs have highly developed cognitive abilities.

In companies that use large numbers of cubicles in a common space, employees sometimes use the term «prairie dogging» to refer to the action of several people simultaneously looking over the walls of their cubicles in response to a noise or other distractioIn companies that use large numbers of cubicles in a common space, employees sometimes use the term «prairie dogging» to refer to the action of several people simultaneously looking over the walls of their cubicles in response to a noise or other distractioin a common space, employees sometimes use the term «prairie dogging» to refer to the action of several people simultaneously looking over the walls of their cubicles in response to a noise or other distractioin response to a noise or other distraction.

Some argue prairie dogs will defend and feed young that are not theirs, [11] and it seems young will sleep in nursery chamber with other mothers; since most nursing occurs at night, this may be a case of communal nursing.

Several zoos in Europe have stable prairie dog colonies that generate enough supernumerary pups to saturate the EU internal demand, and several associations help owners to give adoption to captivity - born animals.

[6] As prairie dogs live in areas prone to environmental threats, including hailstorms, blizzards, and floods, as well as drought and prairie fires, burrows provide important protection for them.

Highly social, prairie dogs live in large colonies or «towns», and collections of prairie dog families that can span hundreds of acres.

In 2000, the U.S. Department of the Interior declared the black - tailed prairie dog «warranted» for listing as a threatened species, however the secretary was «precluded from actually listing the species by more urgent concerns».

Come in and see for yourself how you can get back as much energy as the prairie dogs at the San Diego Zoo!

While hunting in the Texan prairie Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) sees an injured dog in the distance, and investigating where it came from leads him to find the remains of a drug deal gone bad.

And CGI critters abound, from the opening prairie dogs that seem to think they're in Caddyshack 3 to some helpful monkeys that teach Shia LeBeouf how to navigate some cartoon treetops.

And the super-evolved animals made things even more interesting (though the talking prairie dogs seemed a little too easy and dangerously Jar - Jar - ian in their syntax).

What can our beloved old dogs or cats, the wolf on the prairie or the birds in our backyards teach us about ourselves?

The question, now, was whether to interrupt Ray — in the yard constructing a half - pipe from the plywood they'd pried off the windows and doors of the starlet's ultramodern château — or to handle this prairie dog situation herself.

Mitchell spent her childhood on a military base on the prairies and now makes her home in Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada, with her husband, Alan, and their dog, Annie.

But Robson and the other writers appearing in this collection, such as Andrei Codrescu, whose essay reveals the bigotry of his father - in - law, or Terry Tempest Williams, who lambastes ranchers and lawmakers for their disregard of the value and rights of the prairie dog, are not in any way attempting to achieve balance or objectivity.

In the United States, dachshunds were first used for hunting small game such as prairie dogs.

For the past 30 years, the veterinarians and team at Arlington Park Veterinary Hospital have offered complete veterinary services to dogs; cats; tiny animals such as gerbils, guinea pigs, rabbits, and prairie dogs; and exotics in the NW suburbs and beyond.

animals such as gerbils, guinea pigs, rabbits, and prairie dogs; and exotics in the NW suburbs and beyond.

Frustration over the program's persistent lack of transparency about the methods it uses to kill millions of animals each year, including coyotes, bobcats, otters, foxes, prairie dogs and black bears (and countless non-target animals) is growing and media attention, including a recent in - depth opinion piece in The New York Times, has begun to shine light on this federal program's shadowy activities with a call for reform.

Farmers and hunters in the United States relied on it to track deer and capture prairie dogs.

Those who remain live in a landscape of fallendown buildings, burned - out houses, strip clubs and urban prairie with one of the highest crime rates in the country and countless free - roaming pet dogs and unwanted strays, nearly none of whom are spayed or neutered.»

Most prairie dogs sold in the pet market are harvested as babies from wild populations - perhaps this is why so many defy domestication.

Parasites may be seen in and on prairie dogs.

Due to an outbreak of monkey pox in the USA, a joint order was issued that banned the import of several African rodents and also the transport, sale or release of pet prairie dogs.

Put my rescue pibble on TOTW high prairie after reading up on the truth about most commercial dog foods (he is my first dog and i didn't realize how pathetic some of the major brands are in the ingredients department).