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Prairie dogs habitat?

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What are buffalo natural habitat?

the prairie


What are the adaptations of the prairie dogs?

Prairie dogs: have claws to dig their homes; have fur to keep them warm; have fur the same color as their habitat to blend in and hide from predators; can run fast.


What is the 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.


How prairie dogs are endangered?

Prairie dogs are rodents and live in aggregations called towns or colonies in burrows which can be as much as 15 feet deep and 60 feet long and sometimes connect with other burrows. Prairie dogs use prairie and grassland habitat ranging from the mid-west to the western United States. They are considered a key indicator species for the health of prairie and grassland habitat. In the early 1900's humans eradicated prairie dogs and destroyed prairie dog habitat. Some people view prairie dogs as a pest and continue to poison and eradicate them. Ranchers see the prairie dog as a competitor for the grass that cattle eat, so they have poisoned prairie dogs with harmful chemicals that sometimes killed other animals. Also, many prairie dog towns have been plowed over for crop fields or destroyed for human development. Diseases, like, have also reduced prairie dog populations. Scientists estimated we have lost as much as 98% of the prairie dog habitat that once existed.Other contributors:The prairie dogs are endangered due to the plowing of their homes, totally covering them. Due to this the prairie dogs cannot get food and water. They are not endangered at a high level yet their population is dwindling. Some pet stores also sell them as pets.


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.


Are prairie dogs scavengers?

No -- prairie dogs are herbivores.


As humans have converted prairies to pastures and farm, prairie dogs have lost 98 percent of their habitat. Ferrets depend completely on prairie dogs for food and the construction of their homes. What is a likely consequence of continued loss of prairies?

Ferret extinction


Do bobcats prairie dogs and snakes live in the same habitat?

Yes, they do. Bobcats are the most proliferate wildcat in North America.


How prairie dogs eats?

prairie dogs eats with their hands


Should prairie dogs be capitalized?

No, prairie dogs is not capitalized.


Do prairie dogs live on the prairie?

Well, of course they do, or else they wouldn't be called Prairie Dogs!