white-tailed prairie dog
cynomys leucurus latin

White-tailed prairie dogs are only in around 8% of their original territory.

The white-tailed prairie dog is tan-brown in color, with large eyes and a dark patch on their cheeks above and below each eye.

Their prey includes Richardson's ground squirrel, white-tailed prairie dog, and white-tailed jackrabbit.

All lower third molars possess the stylid feature characteristic of white-tailed prairie dogs (subgenus Leucocrossuromys).

Wild animals in the area such as elk, black bears, white-tailed prairie dogs, and mantled ground squirrels eat the bulbs of the wild onions.

The reversal affects the protection for species including the white-tailed prairie dog, the Preble's meadow jumping mouse and the Canada lynx.

We conclude that white-tailed prairie dogs are dynamic reproducers and that their population age distributions are neither stable nor stationary.

In Wyoming, alternate prey items consumed during white-tailed prairie dog hibernation included voles (Microtus spp.)

Fasting biochemistry of representative spontaneous and facultative hibernators: the white-tailed prairie dog and the black-tailed prairie dog.

Variation in population density and life history traits were studied in six white-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys leucurus) populations in Wyoming using mark – recapture techniques.

Black-footed ferret litters near Meeteetse, Wyoming, were associated with mounded white-tailed prairie dog burrows, which are less common than non-mounded burrows.

Eight other endangered species decisions were reopened, including the white-tailed prairie dog, Preble's meadow jumping mouse, arroyo toad, California red-legged frog, and the Canada lynx.

Based on 86 black-footed ferret scats found near Meeteetse, Wyoming, 87% of black-footed ferret diet was composed of white-tailed prairie dogs.

Among the species, black-tailed prairie dogs tend to be the least sexually dimorphic, and white-tailed prairie dogs tend to be the most sexually dimorphic.

The white-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys leucurus) is found in western Wyoming and western Colorado with small areas in eastern Utah and southern Montana.

Although Gunnison's prairie dogs are considered to be less social than black-tailed prairie dogs, they are considered to be more social than the white-tailed prairie dogs.

The white-tailed prairie dog, Great Basin spadefoot toad, tiger salamander, pygmy rabbits, and sagebrush lizards all go underground for protection from the desert's extreme weather and predators.

Black-tailed prairie dog colonies contain a greater burrow density per acre than white-tailed prairie dog colonies, and may be more suitable for the recovery of black-footed ferrets.

According to the report, MacDonald took a particular interest in a petition to list the white-tailed prairie dog, whose habitat in four Western states is also coveted by ranchers, developers and energy companies.

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

Petitions have been made to protect the white-tailed prairie dog, but they have been denied by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service due to insufficient scientific data describing current population trends.

We have found that during the winter when maintained under identical conditions, Wyoming ground squirrels and white-tailed prairie dogs will enter torpor at an ambient temperature of 7 °C, while black-tailed prairie dogs will not.

The rodents included California ground squirrels, Olympic marmots, yellow-bellied marmots, black-tailed prairie dogs, white-tailed prairie dogs, thirteen-lined ground squirrels, Belding's ground squirrels, and Richardson's ground squirrels.

In a second action touching on the same arid landscape, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced in the Federal Register on Tuesday that it was rejecting a petition to give endangered status to the white-tailed prairie dog.

However, when deprived of food and water, black-tailed prairie dogs can be induced into a state of torpor that is characterized by a shorter duration of continuous dormancy than that of the ground squirrels or white-tailed prairie dogs.