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The mysterious and fascinating social life of the black-tailed prairie dog

✍ Scribed by E. Tom Thorne

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
211 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0733-3188

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✦ Synopsis

began his studies on the social life of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) in 1974 and terminated intensive research on the species in 1989 to conduct comparative research on Gunnison's (C. gunnisoni) and Utah (C. pawidens) prairie dogs. Working in the field from February through June for most of 16 years, Hoogland, aided by his family and 115 volunteer field assistants, logged 73,210 person hours of research. Most of the observations were made at a single prairie dog colony in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota. During each field season, all members of the colony were captured and individually marked for identification at a distance from three towers , where daily dawn-to-dusk observations

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