




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.
Hábitat: Grasslands
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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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!
Northern Pocket Gopher has powerful front claws that help them dig complex tunnel systems incredibly fast.
Northern Pocket Gopher can use its large external fur-lined cheek pouches to carry food back to its burrow.
Northern Pocket Gopher can close its lips behind its incisors, allowing it to dig with its teeth without eating soil.
This gopher is a vegetarian, mainly munching on plants found underground!
Taxidea taxus
Badgers often dig into gopher tunnels to find them.

Canis latrans
Coyotes ambush gophers that venture above ground.
Bubo virginianus
These owls hunt gophers, especially at dusk and dawn.
Pituophis catenifer
Snakes can enter gopher burrows to hunt them.
Peludo describe a los animales que poseen una cubierta densa de pelo o pelaje suave.
Los animales solitarios viven solos durante la mayor parte de su vida y solo interactúan con otros para aparearse o cuidar de sus crías.
Los animales excavadores cavan túneles y cámaras en el suelo y utilizan estas estructuras subterráneas para refugiarse, cazar o reproducirse.
Este rasgo caracteriza a los organismos cuya dieta consiste total o principalmente en material vegetal.
Los hábitats de pastizales son biomas terrestres dominados por pastos y plantas herbáceas, que sustentan a una variedad de animales de pastoreo.
Describe una especie cuya presencia y papel tienen un efecto desproporcionadamente grande en su entorno.
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Don't try to catch a gopher; they are shy and prefer to stay underground.
18-33 cm
0.1-0.5 kg
1-5 años
5 km/h
This gopher is a vegetarian, mainly munching on plants found underground!
Grasslands
Foraging
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