Over the past century the grasslands of northern Mexico have been taken over by shrubby mesquite and turned to desert. Ecologist Gerardo Ceballos is on a mission to turn them back. Can he restore an entire prairie ecosystem? Ceballos hopes he can, with the help of an unlikely ally. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Chihuahua. Podcast transcript Image Credit: Arthur Chapman, Flickr: EOL Images. CC BY-NC-SA read moreDuration: 5:28Published: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:17:45 +0000
Female with young based on her naked swollen teats. These Prairie Dogs have come under threat from a combination of over hunting(many a red-neck likes to pass their time "shootin potguts",which they don't eat,and just leave to rot in the sun),conversion of steppe to agricultural land or in recent years real estate development , and the introduced sylvatic plague. They are listed as threatened under the U.S. endangered species act,and endangered by th IUCN, and it is now a felony to shoot these "potguts", although that doesn't stop it from happening. They also are the only terrestrial vertebrate endemic to Utah
Summary[edit] Description: Cynomys parvidens Allen, 1905, Utah Prairie Dog, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA, 18 September 2016. Date: 19 September 2016, 00:58. Source: Cynomys parvidens. Author: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. Camera location37° 37′ 39.35″ N, 112° 10′ 20.8″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 37.627597; -112.172445.
Summary[edit] Description: The white-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys leucurus) is found in western Wyoming, western Colorado, and small areas in eastern Utah and southern Montana. The largest populations are in Wyoming where they are known colloquially as "chiselers". White-tailed prairie dogs are colonial but not as social as black-tailed prairie dogs. The "towns" are much more difficult to identify than black-tailed prairie dog towns due to the taller shrub steppe vegetation. White-tailed prairie dogs normally hibernate. Adults become inactive in August-September and juveniles start hibernation in October-November. They emerge from hibernation in late February-early March. This prairie dog species lives at an elevation between 5,000 and 10,000 feet, generally a higher elevation than other prairie dog species. They are common on Seedskadee NWR and the surrounding landscape. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS. Date: 10 June 2014, 09:36. Source: White-tailed prairie dog on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge 01. Author: USFWS Mountain-Prairie.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Gunnison's Prairie Dog Living Desert Museum (from 33mm slide) Date unknown. Date: 26 May 2013, 22:14:44. Source: Own work. Author: Bob Johnson.
Summary[edit] Description: Cynomys parvidens Allen, 1905, Utah Prairie Dog, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA, 18 September 2016. Date: 19 September 2016, 01:07. Source: Cynomys parvidens. Author: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. Camera location37° 37′ 40.39″ N, 112° 10′ 21.65″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 37.627886; -112.172681.
Summary[edit] Description: Français : Chiens de prairie du Colorado (Cynomys gunnisoni) au Parc Zoologique du Bois d’Attilly. Date: 21 May 2016, 15:54:31. Source: Own work. Author: zoo_attilly. Camera location 48° 44′ 43.36″ N, 2° 39′ 46.13″ E: View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth: 48.745379; 2.662814.
Summary[edit] Description: Cynomys parvidens Allen, 1905, Utah Prairie Dog, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA, 18 September 2016. Date: 19 September 2016, 01:05. Source: Cynomys parvidens. Author: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. Camera location37° 37′ 39.89″ N, 112° 10′ 21.38″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 37.627747; -112.172606.