blacktail prairie dog
cynomys ludovicianus latin

Observations on the reproductive cycle of the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus).

Arkive - images and movies of the prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)

Updated status report on the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) in Canada.

Vegetative differences among active and abandoned towns of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus).

The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) was first described by Lewis and Clark in 1804.

For example, prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) give alarm calls when predators approach, causing all individuals in the group to quickly scramble down burrows.

Body temperatures (Tb) of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) were monitored in the field for 1 year.

Prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)

Black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) enter torpor intermittently during winter in the field but do not hibernate continuously from fall to spring.

We examined the ontogeny of individual distinctiveness in time-allocation patterns of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus).

Black-tailed prairie dog distribution (Cynomys ludovicianus) in the Canadian prairies is very limited, therefore of no consequence to swift fox survival in most areas.

This situation was analogous to the modern day prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) and its predator the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).

In western South Dakota, Ord's kangaroo rats are associated with black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns.

Of 4 species, only the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) extends into Canada (near Val Marie, Sask).

It is almost totally dependent for its existence on the Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus Orcl.)

In the Great Plains this decline maybe related to a decline in black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns that the owls use for nest sites.

The seeds of this grass provide food for small birds and mammals, including scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) and black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus).

Prairie dogs feature only as supplemental prey for breeding golden eagles but wintering eagles reportedly prey heavily on colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus).

Kidney structure and function of obligate and facultative hibernators: the white-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys leucurus) and the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus).

The spatial patterns of burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia) nests in black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns were examined in the Nebraska panhandle during the spring and summer of 1989–1991.

The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), is a rodent of the family Sciuridae found in the Great Plains of North America from about the USA-Canada border to the USA-Mexico border.

This lack of knowledge of the dynamics of plague in mammal species is also true among susceptible rodents such as the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), in which plague can cause colony collapse, resulting in a massive effect on prairie food webs.