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Battle with a salamander ?

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So I’ve been having what I thought was a battle with a prairie dog with a hole under my front walkway. I’d put rocks to block the hole. The next day they would be gone. For weeks this has been happening. Well I got home after work. Turns out it’s a salamander. I thought they stayed closer to water.

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Specific Animal Fan Club

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He has a prairie dog named big ounce, who is one of the shining stars of the channel. The youtube group that posts exclusively content about a specific youtuber. I think you'd like him. The name is: The Urban Rescue Ranch. His channel is great but I'm here for mine so let me explain.

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Can animals change behaviour depending on the human?

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Me (F) and my boyfriend have two beautiful and sweet prairie dogs, a boy and a girl who are about one year old. Hi everyone. The wired thing is that they change behaviour based on who they are with.

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What It Feels Like For a Ferret Watcher

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If we get close enough we might see a pink maw and slivers of white teeth, ready to take a prairie dog by the throat and choke the life out but also rather perversely adorable. Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night.

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What is the National Bird of Aruba?

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These owls use the tunnels of other species as their nesting burrows, and so can be found associated with ground squirrels, tortoises, and prairie dogs. They are fairly small owls , standing around eight inches tall and weighing a little more than five ounces.

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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

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Russell National Wildlife Refuge , more than a million acres of prairie, badlands, coulees, and the massive Fort Peck Reservoir on the Missouri River. The soil is heavy with clay, great for holding prairie dog burrows but not so wonderful for making unsurfaced roads that stand up to the weather.

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Forgotten Prairies

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Ferruginous Hawks are native to our western short-grass prairies and their diet comprises almost completely of prairie dogs. Well, the ongoing issues of land development, sport shooting, and the rancher’s war on these animals keeps prairie dog populations from ever booming. Not too bad eatin’, huh?