Prairie Dogs: America's Meerkats - Social Life
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- This program discusses the Social Life and behavior of the 5 species of prairie dogs; the Black-tailed prairie dogs and the Mexican prairie dogs are the black-tailed group who have black tail tips, and the Gunnison's prairie dogs, the White-tailed prairie dogs, and the Utah prairie dogs are the white-tailed group who have white tail tips.
All prairie dogs live in the grasslands of western central North America, and all are social. They live in relative harmony within their social groups. All of the species are similar in their social behavior, although the black-tails are somewhat more social than the white-tails. Learn about a type of hibernation called Torpor that prairie dogs employ. See pups before they emerge from their natal burrows as well as in different stages of life (an average prairie dog lives 3-4 years), rare above ground mating, a lot of greet-kissing, territorial behavior from fighting and aggressive chases to social structure based on plant food sources on each territory, mutual grooming, and prairie dog personalities!
Prairie dogs are considered Keystone Species of their grassland ecosystems -- some 200 vertebrate species and a number of invertebrate species of animals depend on them for food or for their burrows. Prairie dogs survive in 1-2% of their historic range of habitat. Their numbers have declined drastically over the past 100 years to 1-2% of the number of animals there were historically. Agriculture, land development, target shooting and disease are the primary reasons for their continuing decline.
The Mexican prairie dogs are listed as Endangered (under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species -- CITES, as well as recognized by the Mexican government as at high risk of extinction), but are still being killed primarily for agricultural land interests. The Utah prairie dogs are listed as Threatened (under the United States' Endangered Species Act -- ESA), but they are being killed due to land development. The other three species need to be listed also in order to have some protection under the law. The Gunnison's prairie dogs are currently under review for listing under the ESA.
A number of prairie animals are at risk of extinction (as well as prairie dogs themselves) because prairie dog numbers are so low. Five animals that are dependent on prairie dogs and are at highest risk are Black-Footed Ferrets, Swift Foxes, Mountain Plovers, Burrowing Owls and Ferruginous Hawks.
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Nice to see Big Ounce's entire family together.
I'm gonna slap the next person that says big pounce!
@@AIexanderFake What rhymes with Big Bounce?
Prairie dogs. I love them so much
Cup Cake You should marry one lol Just joking lol
Orange juice and Prairie Dogs.....Now that's the BREAKFAST of CHAMPIONS....It's a Great Breakfast to have before you go out and BLOWEM AWAY with a .223 and then you can have ORANGE JUICE with your LUNCH and PRAIRIE DOG DINNER....
Yes, I love prairie dog too, love so much, ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Farmers over-graze the land and blame the prairie dog. Bison co-existed with prairie dogs for thousand of years. And prairie dogs actually make the vegetation more nutritious, so much so that herbivores prefer vegetation in those areas.
Yeah and if there'd have been no prairie dogs there would have been three times as many bison! Have you ever been in a prairie dog town they graze that s*** down to the dirt leaving almost nothing for anything else the only time you get any new grass in a town that's worth anything is if you get some fresh rain on it and you get growth faster than they can eat it! I personally love having them around but don't kid yourself they are a very destructive species if your livelihood revolves around the grass as the ranchers does! Pretty sure if somebody put their hand in your pocket and pulled out twenty thousand bucks you wouldn't be overly appreciative of it either!
Human beings are the ones that over feed. We eat and kill all the animals and blame it on other animals that there's no resources left 2 go around. Gotta love all ppl we r fat fucks.
@dean nelson I can understand that the ranchers aren't too thrilled about having them around, if they feel that they are some kind of threat to their livelihood, but to compare a creature that's just going about it's business the way it has done for thousands of years, to a human thief with corrupt intent, is ridiculous.
Other methods of managing or deterring local populations should be attempted, as wandering around, massacring such creatures seldom works in the long term.
Case in point; coyotes. Shooting individuals or groups in and around farmer's properties, had zero effect in the long term, as another individual or group would just show up and take their place.
Deterrence via livestock guardians, ensured that the local population of coyotes were familiar with, and deterred by the dogs, for generations.
Eating meat, eggs and dairy are the #1 cause of deforestation and ecological disruption and 70% of all crop farms in the US are used for lifestock feed. Yes, feeding food to animals is a HUGE waste of calories, they don't convert to meat calories efficiently by any stretch of the imagination I forgot what the exact numbers are but suffice it to say that if we didn't rear lifestock we could feed all the poor countries in the world with that farmland instead and that there is a good reason the poorest people can't afford meat at all, it's too expensive to produce meat. The only reason it's affordable in America is because the government subsidizes the hell out of it, your tax dollars are going to annihilate the rainforest.
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There are several prairie dog towns in my little New Mexico town. Such charming little critters!!!
I'm calling it now... Secret lives of prairie dogs by Pixar. It's gonna happen.
I come here with a message from the future
The movie never happened
The world was destroyed by the most adorable thing in the world penguins & squirrel's
Still waiting
i love these critters :(
They are so cute
Debra Padgett yes they are.
Such beautiful things.
Dr. Slobodchikoff, thank you very much for sharing your work with the public. I find your studies intriguing and enlightening. As a child, I often dreamed about being a person who - like the fictional Dr. Doolittle - could communicate with the animals. Your studies are bringing us closer to that possibility. Best wishes to you!
Its sad that such amazing animals are on the brink of extintion. Sometimes we take for granted all the amazing plants and animals we have in this world.
I know this comment is ancient, but prairie dogs are NOT "on the brink of extinction". There are five species, and only the Utah and Mexican are endangered, the others are listed as "least concern" by the IUCN - which is the best listing a species can have.
@Onika Tanya Maraj Petty that’s whatever amount humans decided they should have - as if we should make that decision
@@Aethuviel People love their misery porn.
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They are so cool
Ellos son adorables y hermosos y los amo 🥰🥰🥰
I gotta have a few!! I love these lil cuties!!
Thats a WILD 5 hours
The cover photo is so CUTE!!!!! The ho famly and momma and poppa are holdin paws n makin' out!
Those dogs are so cute.
Thank you for uploading this informative video, who knew? Everyone says this but, they are so cute how come you not like them and now that I understand that they are both smart and have a social hierarchy of some lesser degree it makes me respect them even more.
prairie dogs are so rad!
Save the prairie dogs... ❤️🙏🏻
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Save the prairie dogs
BIG OUNCE’S RELATIVES 🤩🤩🤩
Great info from a highly regarded expert. Nice footage and stills, especially 3:24
Curious that some of the fighters appear to be black-tails - rather than the white-tails mentioned.
very informative and interesting. thank you for the video!
Your video is amazing, thankyou so much.
Not too bad I like it You did a very good job I also love the videos and pictures of the prairie dogs they are very cute and they can show how aggressive they can be technically and I yeah I like it I liked it I really really liked it
Thanks for informations, 🙏🙏🙏
I am currently working on a music project telling the story of Lewis and Clark. A prairie dog song is mandatory. So I'm trying to learn the prairie dog basics. Thank you for the movie!
Kemono friends brought me here
Thank you for this informative, humorous and sad based on what humans are doing to them video. I often think if all other species on the planet were able to vote whether or not to keep the parasite that is humanity in existence, I think it would be a landslide. Then again other species are more tolerant than we are so maybe they would allow us to stay even at their own demise.
More tolerant are you kidding me only you triggered snowflakes that I have absolutely no idea what the hell that goes on in Mother Nature thinks animals are tolerant! Animals have no sympathy no apathy and no respect for anything else but themselves and to act like they're somehow Noble is just a very good way of letting everyone else know that you have no idea what you're talking about!
Farmer fucked the food chain.... There is no apex predator.
They are just rodents calm down.
Thank you
I love these little Kooks.. so cute💜We don’t have them in my state I don’t think but after watching a TH-cam video of a kook that has some and many more they are the most beautiful I just went on Etsy and got some pictures of them. They’re so cute. I don’t want them. I have the last two years seven baby squirrels show up in my yard in June, no moms around so you know how that goes playtime
Why are people allowed to hunt these lovely animals?
ask the state wildlife bureaus and BLM. the fact that idiots with rifles can kill unlimited numbers for "sport" is sickening, and utube encourages it by posting their hunting videos so these miserable assholes can brag about their marksmanship !
@@happygilmore5948 no ! they eat grass and forbs, idiot.
@@jerryeinstandig7996 They dig so many holes on farms in Colorado where horses can fall in a break their legs or other livestock like cows. They are a pest since they have so many numbers and not enough natural predators which is why people are allowed to hunt them. They also carry disease
@@happygilmore5948 no, they feed on grasses and forbs, not crops. every animal eats so let's shoot them all, right ?
Farmer kill coyote, coyote cant kill prairie dog... Prairie dog run avrok on land .... Human want the butter and the butter's cash. Cant have both ... So we have to become the artifisial apex predator
I have one of those.
They seem really cool!
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Interesting. Thx
Cookies? Here come the Marmots!
@0:20 that map is false because I’ve seen them in northern Louisiana on a cow pasture that had been left unattended for a long time
Question? Why are you showing a map of the range of the prairie dog, and it doesn't include Canadian prairies? they are still prairies, and trust me, the prairie dogs are everywhere! I was going to share this video on Prairie Lifestyle Company FB page, which promotes prairies, and yes, the prairie dog is in the logo! :-) I learned about them when living in the prairies and yes, they are very sophisticated and social creatures!
Thank's
How closely related are prairie dogs and Richardson’s black tailed ground squirrels?
very informative. Thanks!
If you think back to your childhood communicating with your surrounding was not that hard. A tree could be your best friend for example.
Then we began this institution we call school and there we are taught that trees don't speak and non-human animals don't speak and son on and so forth. Slowly that living world we knew as children begin to fade.
Some of us find the path back to that connection but sadly most of us civilized humans don't.
rainbowthrustars -
What is the staple of black tail prairiedog in wild?
Good grief you love these animals.
When one dies,they stand around it,like holding a service…don’t kill a prairie dog…bad kamma !
Big ounces family
They’re one of the cuties and curious little creatures among animals. Hope you guys in the USA support local reserve and preservation 😢I just found out people poison them and shoot them also :/ they are a keystone species. They no harm nobody and if they’re located in habitats they could live their life that would be great. Protect them ☹️❤️🔥
I think people are closer to rats than prairedogs
I wish my rats were only fertile for 5 hours in one year! They go into heat every 4 days.
I would so love to have a prairie dog. Unfortunately, there are so many animals that I would love to have… But if I were to actually have them I would be an abusive owner. Because I do not have what they need to fulfill them and make them happy and thereby making myself happy. I have seen so many times, people buying animals because you’re cute and they look like they’re a be fun to have, then, because they do not understand the animal completely they do things that are not good for the animals. Or, the animals, By it’s nature is distractive and many other unpleasant results… This is due again tell mismatch of lifestyle and personalities. I love watching the films I love videos, and this my fix, seeing them happy in homes that are suited for the animals.
Bonnita Claus that wouldn’t make you abusive, but neglectful
Sounds like BBC 2 Dog.
i have a 5yo pdog boy, a sweet pet that loves petting, sleeps next to me in bed.
Sup!!
How are
If these little guys had opposable thumbs....
CYNOMIS!
Big oinces
yanks
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Prairie Dogs are very Social....They like to Especially Socialize with .22 Cal Bullet's.
look see the wannabe troll who failed.
All I can think of is how they explode when you shoot them with a small caliber rifle.
psychopath...
Lola Twinkle you hope i get murdered ? i should be murdered because i made a youtube comment? you're a fucking psycho
Lola Twinkle
I am a bigger stronger and more intelligent animal, and I'm sad to tell Lola Tinkle >>>> request denied- LOL!
Payton Cassella
Enjoy your Cheeseburgers you little two legged rodent, these cuddly creatures must go so that YOU can go to Mikky D's. every time you eat beef YOU contribute to their furry little end
LOL, See ya! gots lots more to shoot---BANG
stuartdivebum first off I dont eat Mcdonalds I have a prairie dog s my pet that is wondefully social but if there is too many prairie dogs then there definitely too many people so I think we should kill them which I already plan to kill more than hitler