Prairie Dog Facts
+ The average life span for a prairie dog is 3-5 years
+ A prairie dog can grow up to 12-15 inches
+They weigh about 2-4lbs
+Their group name is "Prairie dog town"
+A family group usually contains a male, two females, and young
+The largest recorded Prairie dog town covered about 25,000 sq. miles(65,00km)
+Texas town held about 400,000,000 prairie dogs
+Average litter size 3-4 pup/ they only reproduce once a year
+9 species of wildlife depend on prairie dogs
+ 20 species use prairie dog loams
+ 117 species benefit from prairie dog colonies
+ Species that depend on praire dogs are becoming extinct
+ A prairie dog can live off ts body fat w/o eating or drinking up to60 days
+ Prairie dogs are closly related to the squrriel
+ Their mating season starts in February and end in March
+You can fing Black tailed prairie dogs in parts of: Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas.
