Sentences with phrase «prairie dogs»

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.

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

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

For Gunnison's and white - tailed prairie dogs, however, polyandrous females were less likely than monandrous females to survive until the next mating season.

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

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.

There are just too many beavers, bears, moose, and prairie dogs for people to really co-exist in most regions.

So why would a female prairie dog take the risk to mate with multiple males?

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.

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.

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.

They defy the norms of more owly owls by hunting on the ground by daylight, and of course, the burrowing part — they live underground, often times in borrowed burrows previously occupied by prairie dogs.

Common conditions of pet prairie dogs include obesity, dental disease, respiratory disease, heart disease, and parasites.

Prairie dogs are considered a keystone species; more than 100 species rely on prairie dog towns for their livelihood.

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..

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

They mostly feed on small mammals called prairie dogs.

On Thursday, lots of Lawtonians let us and the city know how they feel about poisoning prairie dogs at Elmer Thomas Park.

In the wild, prairie dogs tend to eat grasses, plants, and leaves.

I never knew prairie dogs looked like that, but I live in the UK.

Epidemics in these areas usually are associated with prairie dogs and their fleas.

(15 minutes away prairie dogs and horses roam, too!)

PRAIRIE dogs talk some pretty colourful talk.

«The vaccine protected prairie dogs in our study, but not all of them» said Dr. Rocke.

Researchers at the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wisconsin, examined skin lesion tissue from the family and looked at lymph node tissue from the family's now - sick 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.

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

When a predator approaches, the first alert prairie dog gives a sharp warning call, bobs up and down in excitement, calls again and then plunges below.

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.

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

As captive pets, it is essential to feed a diet that approximates what they eat in the wild in order to prevent dietary - related diseases such as obesity, malnutrition, and gastrointestinal disorders, which are among the more common health disorders in captive prairie dogs.

Guinea pigs, rabbits and prairie dogs need a 16 - to 32 - oz.

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.

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

I was planning on taking the opportunity to post a few of my favorites but they've scattered like prairie dogs.

And there is the legend of Bobcat Carter, a trapper who put pepper in his shoes to keep his feet warm, subsisted on a diet of prairie dog stew and lived to be 97 years old.

Active families will love the abundance of foot and horse trails, and you can camp amongst the creatures, as wildlife such as American bison, mountain lions, feral horses, elk, bighorn sheep, white - tailed deer and mule deer, and prairie dogs abound, as well as at least 186 species of birds including golden eagles, sharp - tailed grouse, and wild turkeys.

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.

They distributed it by drones and four - wheelers in small test plots in seven states to limit prairie dog carriers.

(Plague can threaten prairie dog populations too, so everybody wins.)

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.

It's unclear just how many prairie dogs in colonies need to be vaccinated to protect the ferrets from plague.

«Why do female prairie dogs copulate with more than one male?

When prairie dogs construct burrows, for instance, selection pressures may begin to favor behaviors like burrow guarding to keep predators out.

Today it is a national wildlife refuge, home to bald eagles that feast on its prodigious prairie dog population.

A multi-year, CSU - led study that involved trapping and testing thousands of prairie dogs across the Pawnee National Grassland, and tens of thousands of their plague - carrying fleas, was conducted by CSU biologists Daniel Salkeld and Michael Antolin, and is published Jan. 13 in BioScience.

«Plague - riddled prairie dogs a model for infectious disease spread.»

As was widely reported on social media, the U.S. is indeed going to use aerial drones to spread vaccine - laced pellets among prairie dogs to save endangered ferrets, although, contrary to some reports, no M&M s will be involved.

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).