CONSERVATION OF BLACK-TAILED PRAIRIE DOGS (CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS)
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- 1 November 2001
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 82 (4) , 889-893
- https://doi.org/10.1644/1545-1542(2001)082<0889:cobtpd>2.0.co;2
Abstract
“… discovered a Village of Small animals that burrow in the grown (those animals are Called by the french Petite Chien) … we found 2 frogs in the hole and Killed a Dark rattle Snake near with a Ground rat [prairie dog] in him … Those Animals are about the Size of a Small Squ[ir]el … much resembling a Squirel in every respect … his tail like a ground squirel which they shake and whistle when allarmd … it is Said that a kind of Lizard also a Snake reside with those animals.” (Meriwether Lewis, Lewis and Clark Expedition, 17 September 1804)Keywords
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