The two RV Gypsies only found
reference to 5 types of prairie dogs: Black-tailed, White-tailed, Gunnison's,
Mexican, and Utah Prairie Dogs. The white-tailed prairie dog is tan-brown
in color, with large eyes and a dark patch on their cheeks above and
below each eye and are not said to be located in SD. There is a small
black mark under one eye of some of the prairie dogs here, so that must
be what they are. The ads seen in this area described the white prairie
dog as white fur, but brown skin and they are not albino, and they were
advertised as only being located here and nowhere else.
The fur of the prairie dogs photographed here was not pure white as
it had a bit of light brown also, as seen in the photos below. Whether
they are or are not white-tailed prairie dogs, they were interesting
to the two RV Gypsies. |
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Prairie dogs
(genus Cynomys) are herbivorous burrowing
rodents native to the grasslands of North America. The five species
are: black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah, and Mexican prairie
dogs. They are a type of ground squirrel, found in the United States,
Canada and Mexico. In Mexico, prairie dogs are found primarily in the
northern states, which lie at the southern end of the Great Plains:
northeastern Sonora, north and northeastern Chihuahua, northern Coahuila,
northern Nuevo León, and northern Tamaulipas. In the United States,
they range primarily to the west of the Mississippi River, though they
have also been introduced in a few eastern locales. Despite the name,
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The Ranch Store of the Badlands
along old Highway 16 in Kadoka, SD encourages people to feed the Prairie
Dogs. There were children running all over the place chasing the prairie
dogs and trying to pet them. The two RV Gypsies did not like that place
much and left. |
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