#Prairie dogs

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Humans aren't the only animals that organize themselves into towns or, in some cases, entire cities! The largest black-tailed prairie dog colony on record, located in Texas, USA, was 6,474,970 hectares (25000 mi²) and contained an estimated 400 million animals. The largest human city in Texas is Houston; it's only 665 mi² and contains just over 2.2 million people.

(Image: A family group, or coterie, of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) by Jeff Zylland)

If you send me proof that you’ve made a donation to UNRWA or another organization benefiting Palestinians– including esim donations– I’ll make art of any animal of your choosing.

[fightingwithallreality]

Prairie Dogs in Prairie Dog Town (1974) written by Irmengarde Eberle, illustrated by John Hamberger

Bonus °o°

[ambermaitrejean]

May in Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Commerce City, Colorado. Photos by Amber Maitrejean

[antiqueanimals]

Along Four-Footed Trails; Wild Animals of the Plains as I Knew Them. Written by Ruth A. Cook, with illustrations by Mabel Williamson. 1903.

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[gifs-of-puppets]

Happy Groundhog Day!

[spinus-pinus]

Black-tailed Prairie Dog Cynomys ludovicianus

7/1/2022 Colorado Springs, Colorado

[incognito-princess]

My neighborhood is next to freight railroad tracks and then there's a narrow strip of land that can't be developed, and then a state highway, and then a strip of land with stores and a restaurants and a walmart, and then a creek.

But guess what! In the no-man's-land strip between the tracks and the highway lives a very successful colony of PRAIRIE DOGS!!! Yes! Prairie Dogs- the meerkat of the American West! So yes, sometimes you have to go to Walmart (boo) but then when you're leaving and waiting for the light to change you get to see Prairie Dogs!!!!

Occasionally one will run out into the road and that's not good, but the crows also have babies to feed. And in the Autumn we have the turkey buzzard migrations, so... circle of life!!!

[lonelywretchjervistetch]

OK, hear me out. An American version of Watership Down, but instead of rabbits...it's prairie dogs. Just a bunch of prairie dogs living in the American West, and they need to flee land developers and find a new home. They have to flee a bunch of predators, cross through roads and near settlements, until they finally find a new place to settle in an empty, field (unbeknownst to them, located in a national park or otherwise protected area). Other animals come to live in and around the town, and they have to figure that out; they may have to deal with rival prairie dogs like in the original story, until fending them off using trickery and...not speed. They have stumpy legs.

I call it Watership Town. Maybe Wolf Creek Town, after the real location in Colorado? Eh? Eh? Eh, it's a work in progress.

[chillypepperhot]

I See You...😊

Source Me laf@ilyF ❤️

[t3acupz]

one time i was at the zoo and a guy walks by the prairie dog exhibit (because i stand in front of rodent exhibits for long periods) and his kid asked him what is that and he said “that’s a beaver without a tail”

[adtothebone]

Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” could’ve been very different.

[picturebookshelf]

We All Count: A Book of Cree Numbers (2014)

Story and Art: Julie Flett

Canadian

[antiqueanimals]

La Vie des Animaux Illustrée. Written by Alfred Brehm. Illustration by Robert Kretschmer. 1869 French edition.

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[petsincollections]

Black-tailed prairie dog sitting in grass

CSU - Garst (Warren and Genevieve) Collection

Colorado State University, Mountain Scholar

[untamedperspective2019]

Prairie dog in ninja training 😂 🥷