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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.

Hábitat: Grasslands

Aspecto

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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Datos interesantes

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!

Habilidades especiales

Habilidad

Super Shovel Claws

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

Habilidad

Built-in Shopping Bags

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

Habilidad

Dirt-Proof Chompers

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

Medidas y detalles

Longitud
18-33 cm
Peso
0.1-0.5 kg
Esperanza de vida
1-5 años
Top Speed
5 km/h
Tamaño de la camada
3-7
Gestación
18-20 días

Dieta y alimentación

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

Alimentos principales

  • roots
  • tubers
  • bulbs
  • grasses
  • forbs

Método de búsqueda

  • Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

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.

Rasgos

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Colecciones

Seguridad

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

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es el longitud de Northern Pocket Gopher?

18-33 cm

¿Cuál es el peso de Northern Pocket Gopher?

0.1-0.5 kg

¿Cuál es el esperanza de vida de Northern Pocket Gopher?

1-5 años

¿Cuál es el top Speed de Northern Pocket Gopher?

5 km/h

¿Qué come Northern Pocket Gopher?

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

¿Dónde se encuentra normalmente Northern Pocket Gopher?

Grasslands

¿Cómo caza Northern Pocket Gopher?

Foraging

¿Cuál es el tamaño de la camada de Northern Pocket Gopher?

3-7

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