What is the prairie dogs natural habitat?

Answer 1

The Prairies.

Answer 2

Prairie dogs are rodents and live in aggregations called towns or colonies. Prairie dog burrows can be as much as 15 feet deep and 60 feet long and sometimes connect with other burrows. Prairie dogs live in burrows approximately 10 yards apart, 3 to 14 feet deep, and 10 to 100 feet long or more. A crater-like mound, 3 to 10 feet across and a foot or more tall at the entrance to the burrow prevents water from rushing in and serves as a lookout station. A density of 35 burrows per acre is common, although up to 100 burrows per acre have been reported. Most burrow systems have one entrance, although some have two or even three entrances.

There are five species of prairie dogs in North America - Utah prairie dog, Gunnison prairie dog, White- tailed prairie dog, Mexican prairie dog, and Black-tailed prairie dog

The prairie dog lives in the grassland biome in North American prairie and grassland where there are three distinct areas of prairie - Tallgrass prairie, Mixed-grass prairie and Shortgrass prairie. In the United States, the greatest stretch of grassland is the prairie, extending from the Appalachians in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. Being in the center of the North American land mass, far from the moderating influence of major bodies of water, there is a great range of annual temperature.The dominant vegetation in these biotic communities is blue grama, mixed with galleta grass, Indian rice grass, and other grasses.

Prairie dogs are found throughout most of the western United States from Canada to Mexico -- Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and Wyoming -- including higher elevations of the Mojave, Great Basin and Chihuahuan deserts.

Black-tailed prairie dogs live in colonies or "towns" that range in size from as small as one acre to several thousand acres. The largest prairie dog colony on record was in Texas, and was about 100 miles wide, 250 miles long and contained an estimated 400 million animals.

Black-tailed prairie dogs live in contiguous, territorial family groups called coteries are found east of the Rocky Mountains in the states of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska. They are also found in the southern part of Canada and the northern part of Mexico. Small colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs are still intermittently distributed throughout most of this range. But presently, there are only seven relatively large black-tailed prairie dog complexes remaining in North America (each more than 10,000 acres). Collectively these seven colonies comprise an estimated 36% of all occupied black-tailed prairie dog habitats in North America. Three of these large colonies live on tribal lands in South Dakota managed by the Cheynne Rive Sioux, the Rosebud Sioux, and the Ogala Sioux Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The other four are on Buffalo Gap National Grasslands in South Dakota and Thunder Basin in Wyoming, both managed by the Forest Service/USDA, Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana and on private land in Mexico.

According to www.answers.com/prairie dog, they live in colonies in underground burrows.

Answer 3

these animals live in flat plains, or so called praries, that is why they are called prairie dogs

Answer 4

The North American prairies.

Answer 5

Prairie dogs live on Prairies

Answer 6

Prairie dogs live in prairie dog homes.