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This name is must come from where prairie dogs live. (Prairie dogs live in short-grass prairies and mountain plains of the western USA and Mexico.) The 'dogs' part of their name comes from their warning call, which sounds like a dog's bark.

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Prairie dogs live on prairies. The "dog" part comes from the barking sounds they make.

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