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Northern Pocket Gopher

Thomomys talpoides

The Northern Pocket Gopher is a small, burrowing animal with big cheeks! They use their cheeks to store food and dig tunnels underground where they live and find yummy plants to eat.

Lebensraum: Grasslands

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The Northern Pocket Gopher has a compact, robust body covered in brownish-grey to yellowish-brown fur. It features very small eyes and ears, large chisel-like front teeth always visible, and prominent fur-lined cheek pouches on its head.

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Northern Pocket Gopher
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Northern Pocket Gopher

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

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Interessante Fakten

Each gopher lives all alone in a vast, secret tunnel system that can span hundreds of feet!

Gophers can create many dirt mounds in a single night, making their presence easily known above ground!

Their front teeth never stop growing, so they must constantly gnaw to keep them from getting too long!

They use their sensitive tails like a 'sixth sense' to help them back up quickly in dark, narrow tunnels!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Super Shovel Claws

Northern Pocket Gopher has powerful front claws that help them dig complex tunnel systems incredibly fast.

Fähigkeit

Built-in Shopping Bags

Northern Pocket Gopher can use its large external fur-lined cheek pouches to carry food back to its burrow.

Fähigkeit

Dirt-Proof Chompers

Northern Pocket Gopher can close its lips behind its incisors, allowing it to dig with its teeth without eating soil.

Maße und Details

Länge
18-33 cm
Gewicht
0.1-0.5 kg
Lebenserwartung
1-5 Jahre
Top Speed
5 km/h
Wurfgröße
3-7
Tragzeit
18-20 Tage

Ernährung und Fütterung

This gopher is a vegetarian, mainly munching on plants found underground!

Hauptnahrung

  • roots
  • tubers
  • bulbs
  • grasses
  • forbs

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

American Badger

Taxidea taxus

Badgers often dig into gopher tunnels to find them.

hunts

Coyote

Canis latrans

Coyotes ambush gophers that venture above ground.

eaten by

Great Horned Owl

Bubo virginianus

These owls hunt gophers, especially at dusk and dawn.

eats

Gopher Snake

Pituophis catenifer

Snakes can enter gopher burrows to hunt them.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Don't try to catch a gopher; they are shy and prefer to stay underground.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das länge von Northern Pocket Gopher?

18-33 cm

Was ist der/die/das gewicht von Northern Pocket Gopher?

0.1-0.5 kg

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Northern Pocket Gopher?

1-5 Jahre

Was ist der/die/das top Speed von Northern Pocket Gopher?

5 km/h

Was frisst Northern Pocket Gopher?

This gopher is a vegetarian, mainly munching on plants found underground!

Wo findet man Northern Pocket Gopher normalerweise?

Grasslands

Wie jagt Northern Pocket Gopher?

Foraging

Was ist der/die/das wurfgröße von Northern Pocket Gopher?

3-7

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