Ground squirrels

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Can Prairie Dogs Save Mexico’s Prairie From the Desert?

Prairie dogs once numbered in the billions across the prairies of the West and Mexico. Today there is a fraction of the original population left but activists are working to bring back the prairie dogs and possibly the prairie along with them.

Prairie dogs could be saviors of Mexico’s former prairies

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Can Prairie Dogs Save Mexico’s Prairie From the Desert?

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Of Prairie Dogs

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Squirrel Subdivision

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Animal Note/Squirrels

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on how Belding’s ground squirrels figure out who’s closely enough related to be worth risking your life for. There’s more than meets the eye to those welcome kisses amongst ground squirrels.