Sentences with phrase «prairie dogs living»

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..

[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.

Not exact matches

(The Ferrets live solely on 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.»

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.

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.