Lee and Karen Duquette 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 South
Dakota. 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 Lee and Karen Duquette. |
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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. Karen Duquette did not like The Ranch Store
much and so they left. |
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