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$Cute Prairie Dog on Alert\tat Local Zoo in Hanover, Germany$

Prairie dog at attention in field of grass and weeds

Sitting near their den, a pair wild black-tailed prairie dogs eat grass and nuzzle together in Bear Creek Lake Park in Lakewood, Colorado.

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A prairie dog checking out its surroundings

Highlands Ranch, Douglas County, Colorado, USA: black-tailed prairie dog surveys the horizon (Cynomys ludovicianus) - Daniels park (south Denver).

Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) looking out of earthworks, USA, North America

A cute prairie dog is peeking out from their burrow

$The Gunnison's Prairie Dog (Cynomys gunnisoni) is a rodent and member of the squirrel family. They are primarily distributed in the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Their coats are light brown mixed with black-colored hairs. The top of the head, cheeks, and eyebrows are darker than the rest of the body. The tail is mostly white. The prairie dog’s eyes are on the sides of the head to give them wide peripheral vision to more easily spot predators. The Gunnison's prairie dog typically feeds during the day on grasses, herbs, and leaves. In the spring, they feed on newly grown shrubs. In the summer they mainly consume seeds. Prairie dog habitat includes meadows, grasslands, high desert and floodplains. They are often found in areas of rabbitbrush, sagebrush, and saltbrush. Gunnison's prairie dogs live in large colonies of up to several hundred. They are more active in the early morning and late afternoon especially during hot weather. When the temperatures are cooler, they become more active throughout the day. When it rains or snows, the prairie dog will spend its time underground. When they are above ground, they feed, make social contact, look out for predators, groom and dig their burrows. During the winter, the Gunnison's prairie dog hibernates for long periods of time without food or water, instead relying on stored fat and physiological adaptations to slow their metabolism. After hibernation, they become active from April through October. The Gunnison's prairie dog has a complex system of vocal communication. Their bark is a combination of high-pitched syllables to identify various predators. They also have different sounds for an \$

$Denver county, Colorado, USA: wild black tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus). Species of prairie dogs from the subfamily of ground squirrels that lives in North America and belongs to the rodent order. It owes the name \$

A Black-tailed prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, sitting in the sand

Crowded place. Steppe ground squirrel sits on the sand.

day: surface view of one prairie dog picking up a bamboo stem and eating from it.

Prairie Dogs in Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Prairie dogs (genus Cynomys), which are ground squirrels native to the grasslands of North America, looking out of their burrow.

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