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  2. Prairie dog - Wikipedia

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    A prairie dog town may contain 15–26 family groups, [20] with subgroups within a town, called "wards", which are separated by a physical barrier. Family groups exist within these wards. Most prairie dog family groups are made up of one adult breeding male, two or three adult females, and one or two male offspring and one or two female offspring.

  3. Why Prairie Dogs “Jump Yip” - AOL

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    Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog towns across the dry grasslands of North America. They may be adorable, but these little mammals are fierce fighters with.

  4. Ground squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Ground squirrels are rodents of the squirrel family that generally live on the ground or in burrows, rather than in trees like the tree squirrels.The term is most often used for the medium-sized ground squirrels, as the larger ones are more commonly known as marmots (genus Marmota) or prairie dogs, while the smaller and less bushy-tailed ground squirrels tend to be known as chipmunks (genus ...

  5. Utah prairie dog - Wikipedia

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    Utah prairie dogs are a member of the latter of the two groups and the subgenus Leucrossuromys. Utah prairie dogs may have been part of the interbreeding species of white-tailed prairie dogs but their differences are a result of what is known as allopatric speciation – separation of a species by physiographic and ecological barriers. [5]

  6. Pet Prairie Dog Totally Holds His Own While Playing with ...

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    Prairie dogs are burrowing animals and should be given adequate space and enclosures to engage in their activity. They are extremely social and require up to six hours of socialization with humans ...

  7. Squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae (/ s ɪ ˈ j uː r ɪ d eɪ,-d iː /), a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents.The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels (including chipmunks and prairie dogs, among others), and flying squirrels.

  8. Mustelidae - Wikipedia

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    The black-footed ferret is entirely dependent on another keystone species, the prairie dog. A family of four ferrets eats 250 prairie dogs in a year; this requires a stable population of prairie dogs from an area of some 500 acres (2.0 km 2).

  9. White-tailed prairie dog - Wikipedia

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    Rarely does the prairie dog capture and kill the squirrel, but when it does, it leaves the squirrel for avian predators, as the prairie dog is an herbivore. Female white-tailed prairie dogs who killed squirrels had increased litter sizes, but the higher her body count, the lower her chances of surviving each subsequent attack. [ 6 ]