How To Use Prairie dog In A Sentence
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We slogged around looking for suicidal prairie dogs and learned that hills and gumbo can overcome the best four-wheel drive trucks.
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Diminished prairie dog populations now face the even greater catastrophe of sylvatic plague, an introduced contagious disease for which prairie dogs have little immunity.
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In addition to sylvatic plague, a disease likely brought from Europe by ship rats, prairie dogs have suffered from aggressive poisoning campaigns by farmers and ranchers.
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The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
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This unique region also hosts an impressive array of other wildlife, including blacktail prairie dogs, gray foxes, and piglike javelinas.
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Human beings are simply more aware of it than is the average prairie dog or pumpkinseed sunfish.
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No packing or checking out - we just got in and drove off, leaving behind us a final liquid lunch for our obese prairie dog.
Times, Sunday Times
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This scene may relate to an incident in which Rain-in-the-Face is said to have saved the daughter of the Upper Yanktonai Black Prairie Dog by extending his quirt to her and swinging her up onto his horse when their camp was attacked by the U.S. Army.
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show
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The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
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Prairie dogs also provide food for the swift fox, the coyote, weasels, snakes, badgers, hawks and golden eagles as well as crucial habitat for many other native plants and animals.
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The two essential methods of prairie dog tabulation are aerial surveys and old-fashioned head counts.
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Today Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, home to pronghorns and prairie dogs, coyotes and rattlesnakes, is nearly a desert.
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Their names are the suslik (a Central Asian prairie dog), the pika, a little steppe hare, and an extremely odd antelope, now found in Thibet.
The Naturalist on the Thames
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And typically when hunting small-game like woodchucks, prairie dogs or coyotes, you are in a fixed position with an adequate rest so that shot placement is very controlled.
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Meanwhile, prairie dog colonies are destroyed, and prairie dogs are trapped or frozen to feed captive ferrets in an endless cycle of failure.
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Grizzly bears and bison were exterminated, and coyotes and prairie dogs were shot on sight and poisoned.
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Pocket gophers, gopher tortoises, ants, badgers, prairie dogs, wild pigs, and grizzly bears are just a few of the animals that can alter ecological structure and function.
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This 137,400-acre expanse supports prairie dogs, coyotes, foxes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, elk, mule deer, and over 200 kinds of birds.
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Human beings are simply more aware of it than is the average prairie dog or pumpkinseed sunfish.
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Varmints, those troublesome, unpleasant or despicable animals, include coyotes, fox, raccoons, ground hogs, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, jackrabbits and other small rodents.
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For 91 years, Nebraska state law decreed that black-tailed prairie dogs be eradicated annually.
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Prairie dog support groups are trying to relocate whole colonies of the animals to get them away from hunters and out of the path of development, but it's a slow process.
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Today Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, home to pronghorns and prairie dogs, coyotes and rattlesnakes, is nearly a desert.
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I spotted this cute prairie dog looking for food. There were at least 10 more nearby.
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This last includes chipmunks, gophers, marmots, and prairie dogs.
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Some of these destructive species include beavers, muskrats, elk, deer, voles, marmots, prairie dogs and geese.
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A hawk hid under the potentilla bush and leaped suddenly on an overconfident prairie dog a little too far from its burrow.
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It's the type of precision rifle you can shoot all day over a prairie dog town or snuggle down solidly in some sandbags and produce those little, bragging groups that warm the heart of any rifleman.
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To prepare these endangered captive-bred predators to hunt in the wild, people working in this program provide them with live black-tailed prairie dogs and golden hamsters.
Marc Bekoff: Using Hamsters to Save Ferrets: The Need for Compassionate Conservation
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The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
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Too, this unique region also hosts an impressive array of other wildlife, including blacktail prairie dogs, gray foxes, and piglike javelinas.
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The prairie dogs then passed the disease to their human buyers.
Times, Sunday Times
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If a prairie dog senses danger, he whistles a warning.
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If a prairie dog senses danger, he whistles a warning.
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And, of course, exposure to a prairie dog or other little mammal from that Texas distributor, but not exposure to monkeys as simian lovers are quick to point out.
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But a federal campaign to exterminate prairie dogs in 1950s and '60s killed nearly all of the ferrets' prey.
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It was also interesting to note that the prairie dogs had overflowed the boundaries of their enclosure a bit.
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Today, black-tailed prairie dogs are limited to less than 1 percent of their historic range.
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Folly Farm staff are also delighted at the birth of two more ring tailed lemurs twins, also highly endangered, and prairie dog twins, all born around the same time and yet to be named.
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Pocket gophers, gopher tortoises, ants, badgers, prairie dogs, wild pigs, and grizzly bears are just a few of the animals that can alter ecological structure and function.
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Prairie dogs that the company then sold to a pet dealer in Milwaukee later infected people.
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The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
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The first monkeypox outbreak occurred in the United States in June 2003 when several people were sickened by infected pet prairie dogs.
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Using all-terrain vehicles, a crew of state employees and contractors will roar through thousands of acres of federal land over the next few weeks, spreading oats saturated with zinc phosphide over prairie dog burrows.
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Some of these destructive species include beavers, muskrats, elk, deer, voles, marmots, prairie dogs and geese.
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North-American marmot (_Arctomys Ludoviciana) _, better known by the name of "prairie dog;" only that the subterranean dwellings of the _biscacha_ are larger, from the needs of a bigger-bodied animal.
Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
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A Utah prairie dog emerges to forage in spring snow.
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In 2003, more than 70 people were infected with monkey pox, a viral infection never before seen in this country, after handling infected prairie dogs sold as pets.
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I don't suppose prairie dogs worry much about growing old.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is high praise, considering the TIV 2 has spikes, a photo of some prairie dogs, hydraulic panels, lifts, a swiveling jump seat, an anemometer that measures wind speed, a license plate reading "Do Not Follow During Adverse Weather" and a 92-pound IMAX camera in the back.
Storm Chaser and Tank Blow Into Town
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This shares occupation with the _biscacha_, as does the other, an allied species, with the prairie dog.
Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
