Sentences with phrase «prairie dog colonies»

Already facing challenges as the prairies — and prairie dog colonies (a favorite food item)-- are converted to agricultural and cattle grazing fields, Audubon's climate model now projects a significant shift (only 6 % remaining stable) and reduction (by 84 %) of summer climate space for this species.

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.

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

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

When a prairie dog colony is decimated by plague, the effects reverberate through the entire local ecosystem, from animals to plants and even the soil.

The April 2005 purchase of a 46,000 - acre Mexican ranch will protect threatened grasslands and the world's largest prairie dog colony.

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

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

Because prairie dogs are highly social animals living in tightly knit colonies, they suffer particularly high mortality rates from plague; upwards of 90 percent of a colony can die off during an outbreak.

Over time, new prairie dogs may move in and recolonize these areas, but it can take many years for a colony to return to pre-plague levels.

Count prairies dogs or visit a Quaker school house; ride the Fort Madison Farmington & Western Railroad and don't miss Historic Amana Colonies.

According to Dr. Con Slobodchikoff, who turned his vocalization analysis on the Gunnison's prairie dog of Arizona and New Mexico, the chirps these animals use as «alert calls» are actually word - like packages of information to share with the rest of the colony.