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Why did removing ferrets have such a powerful effect on the prairie ecosystem?
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The fox would die out and the prairie dogs would also die out due to lack of food.
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What is a factor of a prairie dog?
the prairie dog ecosystem is hawks, ferrets, and other animals that hunt the prairie dog.
What type of relationship do ferrets and prairie dogs have?
Domestic ferrets have no relationship with prairie dogs. Black footed ferrets are predators of prairie dogs, which is their main food source. The black footed ferrets uses the prairie dog burrows to live in.
Name three populations found in a prairie ecosystem?
Name three populations commonly found in a prairie ecosystem.
Whose bigger black footed ferrets or prairie dogs?
Black footed ferrets are bigger than prairie dogs
What is a black-footed ferrets shelter?
The black footed ferrets home and shelter is in a prairie dogs burrow
Where do black footed ferrets sleep?
Black-footed ferrets sleep and raise their kits in abandoned prairie dog holes.
do foxes eat ferrets?
Foxes primarily eat prairie dogs.
What is the ferrets most common prey?
I assume you mean in the wild. Well they usually eat prairie dogs but much of the shortgrass prairie habitat on which the ferrets depend has been plowed for crops. Prairie dogs, which are the ferrets' main food, have been reduced in number due to habitat loss and disease. Prairie dogs have been killed because they eat grass used by livestock or winter wheat grown as a crop.
Do ferrets build shelters?
Ferrets don't build shelters, black footed ferret live in burrows from prairie dogs. European ferrets live in burrows of other animals
What animals are omnivores in an prairie ecosystem?
ox
Is sand a habitat in a prairie ecosystem?
It could be for some animals that live in the sand in a prairie.
What are populations found in a prairie ecosystem?
snakes birds insects prairie dogs eagles
