The Prairies.
Prairie dogs are rodents and live in aggregations called towns or colonies. Prairie dog burrows can be as much as 15 feet deep and 60 feet long and sometimes connect with other burrows. Prairie dogs live in burrows approximately 10 yards apart, 3 to 14 feet deep, and 10 to 100 feet long or more. A crater-like mound, 3 to 10 feet across and a foot or more tall at the entrance to the burrow prevents water from rushing in and serves as a lookout station. A density of 35 burrows per acre is common, although up to 100 burrows per acre have been reported. Most burrow systems have one entrance, although some have two or even three entrances.
There are five species of prairie dogs in North America - Utah prairie dog, Gunnison prairie dog, White- tailed prairie dog, Mexican prairie dog, and Black-tailed prairie dog
The prairie dog lives in the grassland biome in North American prairie and grassland where there are three distinct areas of prairie - Tallgrass prairie, Mixed-grass prairie and Shortgrass prairie. In the United States, the greatest stretch of grassland is the prairie, extending from the Appalachians in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. Being in the center of the North American land mass, far from the moderating influence of major bodies of water, there is a great range of annual temperature.The dominant vegetation in these biotic communities is blue grama, mixed with galleta grass, Indian rice grass, and other grasses.
Prairie dogs are found throughout most of the western United States from Canada to Mexico -- Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and Wyoming -- including higher elevations of the Mojave, Great Basin and Chihuahuan deserts.
Black-tailed prairie dogs live in colonies or "towns" that range in size from as small as one acre to several thousand acres. The largest prairie dog colony on record was in Texas, and was about 100 miles wide, 250 miles long and contained an estimated 400 million animals.
Black-tailed prairie dogs live in contiguous, territorial family groups called coteries are found east of the Rocky Mountains in the states of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska. They are also found in the southern part of Canada and the northern part of Mexico. Small colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs are still intermittently distributed throughout most of this range. But presently, there are only seven relatively large black-tailed prairie dog complexes remaining in North America (each more than 10,000 acres). Collectively these seven colonies comprise an estimated 36% of all occupied black-tailed prairie dog habitats in North America. Three of these large colonies live on tribal lands in South Dakota managed by the Cheynne Rive Sioux, the Rosebud Sioux, and the Ogala Sioux Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The other four are on Buffalo Gap National Grasslands in South Dakota and Thunder Basin in Wyoming, both managed by the Forest Service/USDA, Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana and on private land in Mexico.
According to www.answers.com/prairie dog, they live in colonies in underground burrows.
these animals live in flat plains, or so called praries, that is why they are called prairie dogs
The North American prairies.
Prairie dogs live on Prairies
Prairie dogs live in prairie dog homes.
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Prairie dogs: have claws to dig their homes; have fur to keep them warm; have fur the same color as their habitat to blend in and hide from predators; can run fast.
I assume you mean in the wild. Well they usually eat prairie dogs but much of the shortgrass prairie habitat on which the ferrets depend has been plowed for crops. Prairie dogs, which are the ferrets' main food, have been reduced in number due to habitat loss and disease. Prairie dogs have been killed because they eat grass used by livestock or winter wheat grown as a crop.
Prairie dogs are rodents and live in aggregations called towns or colonies in burrows which can be as much as 15 feet deep and 60 feet long and sometimes connect with other burrows. Prairie dogs use prairie and grassland habitat ranging from the mid-west to the western United States. They are considered a key indicator species for the health of prairie and grassland habitat. In the early 1900's humans eradicated prairie dogs and destroyed prairie dog habitat. Some people view prairie dogs as a pest and continue to poison and eradicate them. Ranchers see the prairie dog as a competitor for the grass that cattle eat, so they have poisoned prairie dogs with harmful chemicals that sometimes killed other animals. Also, many prairie dog towns have been plowed over for crop fields or destroyed for human development. Diseases, like, have also reduced prairie dog populations. Scientists estimated we have lost as much as 98% of the prairie dog habitat that once existed.Other contributors:The prairie dogs are endangered due to the plowing of their homes, totally covering them. Due to this the prairie dogs cannot get food and water. They are not endangered at a high level yet their population is dwindling. Some pet stores also sell them as pets.
I assume you mean in the wild. Well they usually eat prairie dogs but much of the shortgrass prairie habitat on which the ferrets depend has been plowed for crops. Prairie dogs, which are the ferrets' main food, have been reduced in number due to habitat loss and disease. Prairie dogs have been killed because they eat grass used by livestock or winter wheat grown as a crop.
Ferret extinction
No -- prairie dogs are herbivores.
Yes, they do. Bobcats are the most proliferate wildcat in North America.
A puppy's natural habitat is where the mother is. Wild dogs live in forests and in caves. Domestic ones live in houses with their families.
A praire dogs natural habitat is not in America.
prairie dogs eats with their hands