Sentences with phrase «prairie dogs occupied»

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

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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.

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.