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I happened to catch this factoid from a TV nature show:
That is really quite amazing when you think about it. That is a larger population than the number of people in the US, about 65% of the population density of New York City, and about the size of Ireland! It was really an entire prairie dog country.
Something else that we had a thread about a year or two ago:
http://www.desertusa.com/dec96/du_pdogs.html...In 1900, a huge Prairie Dog settlement, 100 miles by 250 miles, was reported on the high plains of Texas containing an estimated 400 million Prairie Dogs! [continued]
That is really quite amazing when you think about it. That is a larger population than the number of people in the US, about 65% of the population density of New York City, and about the size of Ireland! It was really an entire prairie dog country.
Something else that we had a thread about a year or two ago:
Prairie Dogs issue different sounds identifying various predators, which include hawks, owls, eagles, ravens, coyotes, badgers, ferrets and snakes.