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Plains pocket gopher

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Geomyidae
Species : Geomys bursarius

 

The Plains pocket gopher is listed as Least Concern (LR/lc), lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Facts about the plains pocket gopher

Adult male Plains Pocket Gophers are much larger than the females.

"A field guide to reptiles of Oklahoma," Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation) Plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius): Geomys bursarius is herbivorous and feeds mainly on underground roots or tubers.

Habits and Habitats of the Plains Pocket Gopher Plains pocket gophers are herbivores, eating leaves, roots, and stems.

The newborn Plains Pocket Gopher is nearly naked, blind and helpless.

More specifically, Geomys bursarius is parapatric with Thomomys talpoides, Thomomys bottae, and Cratogeomys castanops; T. (Full text)

Description: Plains pocket gophers are pale brown to yellowish brown with a slightly paler ventral surface. (Full text)

A plains pocket gopher was reported a victim of an automobile on a highway in Iowa, and plains pocket gophers are reported falling into window wells every summer in Nebraska. (Full text)

  Geomys bursarius is the larger Eastern variety of gopher. (Full text)

The Plains Pocket Gopher is from the order Rodentia. (Full text)

Plains pocket gophers are abundant in sandy and silty soils of the plains but are not abundant in compacted soils. (Full text)

Discussion The only pocket gopher present over most of its range, the Plains Pocket Gopher is much more active in summer than in winter. (Full text)

The yellow-faced pocket gopher (Pappogeomys castanops) inhabits a portion of southeastern Colorado where the plains pocket gopher is found. (Full text)

Comments: Plains pocket gophers are solitary rodents that spend nearly all their life in a network of underground tunnels, coming out only at night to forage around their entrance and to breed. (Full text)

Plains Pocket Gopher A Plains Pocket Gopher is a rodent. (Full text)

In Illinois, the plains pocket gopher is found just east of the Mississippi River in St. (Full text)

Plains pocket gophers are solitary except during the breeding season. (Full text)

Habits: The plains pocket gopher is more highly specialized for digging than any other North American rodent and lives underground for practically its entire life. (Full text)

Plains pocket gophers are solitary except during breeding periods and rarely leave the tunnel except for breeding or for foraging near the entrance of a tunnel, where they sometimes can be seen. (Full text)

htm Geomys bursarius is found in open to sparsely wooded areas. (Full text)

Geomys bursarius: Narrative Geomys bursarius is found in open to sparsely wooded areas. (Full text)

The plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) is a prairie species found in medium and fine-textured soils along the Illinois River and east and south of the Kankakee River (Hoffmeister, 1989). (Full text)

Description: The plains pocket gopher is a small, solitary (lives alone) rodent. (Full text)

Food: Plains pocket gophers are vegetarians. (Full text)

: News Editor Contact: Linda Ratcliffe Great Plains Studies (402) 472-3965 PLAINS POCKET GOPHERS ARE OLSON SEMINAR TOPIC (Full text)

1. plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius -- (gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America)
plains pocket gopher
Geomys bursarius
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