Sentences with phrase «prairie dogs from»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

The health scare began when Schyan Kautzer, a 3 - year - old from Dorchester, Wisconsin, was bitten by her new pet prairie dog and developed a mild fever.

The same method might be used for the black - tailed prairie dog — removed from the endangered species list but still declining on the Great Plains and often infected by fleas with plague bacteria, Knutie says.

And prairie dogs have some color vision but can't tell red from green.

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.

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.

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

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.

During a 4 - or 5 - hour estrus, a female prairie dog may mate with as many as 5 different males, allowing pups from the same litter to have different fathers.

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».

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.

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.

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

Therefore, ANY deviation from normal should be a cause for concern, and you should take your prairie dog to your veterinarian for an immediate evaluation.

In another Foundation - funded project, the team is using samples from the field vaccine study to help understand plague ecology and overlap among rodent communities and prairie dogs in grassland ecosystems.

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.

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.

But from dolphins to prairie dogs, science is showing that many animals do have complex language systems.

WildEarth Guardians has released a report grading states and federal agencies on their support of the cute critters and what they're doing to help keep the populations from shrinking further.Taking into consideration factors like habitat preservation, plague monitoring and conservation plans, the report card showed most states sitting below a B, with only Arizona and the National Park Service actually scoring a B. With all species declining and nearing threatened and endangered status, and the Mexican prairie dog currently listed as endangered, protection of this important animal is important.