Sentences with phrase «of prairie dog»

After more than 25 years of studying the calls of prairie dog in the field, one researcher managed to decode just what these animals are saying.

The Denver Zoo and the Mesker Park Zoo in Evansville, Ind., are also holding celebrations this year in honor of the prairie dog.

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.

The landscape was otherwise empty, except for the carcass of a prairie dog, a collapsed bundle of dull fur and bones.

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

Tens of thousands of acres of prairie dog habitat was poisoned until 2006.

Colorado State University biologists say this sporadic ebb and flow of prairie dog plague is an ideal model for the study of rare infectious zoonotic disease — disease that can jump from wildlife to humans — like MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and Ebola.

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

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).

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..

Comparisons Of the two main species of prairie dogs, the black - tailed (C. ludovicianus) has a black - tipped tail and is much more widespread, occurring sparsely over the Great Plains and throughout the Great Basin.

There are five species of prairie dogs (genus Cynomys): Black - Tailed Prairie Dog (C. ludovicianus) occupies narrow bands of dry plains stretching from central Texans to Canada.

Made of a high - quality timothy hay, Prairie Dog Natural Pellets are specifically formulated to the unique nutritional requirements of prairie dogs, helping to keep captive prairie dogs happy and healthy.

Due to the nature of prairie dogs, most testing is done under gas (usually isoflurane) anesthesia.

Dialects in the alarm calls of prairie dogs.

Ecological and demographic effects on intraspecific variation in the social system of prairie dogs.

Not exact matches

The black - footed ferret, never common, is about to flicker out and die as a species, victim of the poisons that are also wiping out the prairie dogs on which the ferret dines.

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.

On the opposite side of the globe from Bale, on North America's Great Plains, Rocke's lab is testing an oral vaccine to protect prairie dogs and endangered ferrets from plague.

But instead of returning with a puppy or parakeet, they purchased two prairie dogs.

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

Saving plague - ridden prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) is an indirect way to protect the real target: an endangered predator, black - footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) of the Great Plains.

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.

The prairies of the Upper Missouri River Basin are home to iconic species such as the prairie dog and provide critical habitat for many grassland birds, but they are losing ground to food production and, increasingly, to bioenergy crops.

If I had studied only Gunnison's prairie dogs, on the other hand, I would have concluded that both costs and benefits of polyandry dramatically affect female survivorship and female reproductive success,» says Hoogland.

An excerpt from Todd Wilkinson's latest book looks at the media magnate's almost evangelical efforts to save the prairie dog — a passion that has earned him converts to his cause as well as the enmity of his fellow ranchers

If I had studied only black - tailed prairie dogs, I would have concluded that costs and benefits of polyandry are minimal.

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.

Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key species — such as large carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many others depend — would shelter additional species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.

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.

Plague doesn't usually kill people these days, but it's alive and well among the millions of ground - dwelling rodents of Colorado and other western states, notably the black - tailed prairie dog.

Throughout their study, Salkeld and Antolin found that grasshopper mice and coyotes that scavenge plague - killed prairie dogs can speed transmission of the disease by spreading the disease - carrying fleas.

Fortunately, the mass communications system also evolved an escape mechanism, namely, yet another viewing of the video of the sensational dramatic prairie dog (often taxonomically miscategorized as a dramatic chipmunk).

Black - footed ferrets depend on prairie dogs as a source of food, but both species are being decimated by disease.

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.

The city of Santa Fe, New Mexico maintains a municipal park with a resident colony of Gunnison's prairie dogs.

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.

At the turn of the century, as many as 5 billion prairie dogs occupied millions of acres of grass prairies across the West.

Recent studies suggest that prairie dogs possess the most sophisticated of all natural animal languages.

When prairie dogs relocate, they take over abandoned holes or dig new holes at the edge of the town.

The various native plants of the Great Plains make up the prairie dog's primary diet, comprising all kinds of grasses, roots, weeds, forbs and blossoms.

The Black - footed Ferret has been listed as an endangered species since 1967; more than a half century of misguided predator control campaigns and efforts to eradicate prairie dogs from farm and ranch land decimated the population.

Most people can agree the park's prairie dog population is out of control, but why kill them?

Modern genetic technologies may help complete the restoration of this cunning predator of the prairies» keystone species: the prairie dog.

During the first half of the 20th century, misguided predator control campaigns and efforts to eradicate prairie dogs from farm and ranch land decimated the population.

But a lot of people we talked to believe killing the prairie dogs is cruel and inhumane.

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.

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 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.