They grow eleven to six-teen inches, and weigh one to three pounds. White tailed Prairie Dog Prairie Dogs live in colonies or towns that can stretch for miles and miles on open prairies. There can be thousands of Prairies in a town of a Black-Tailed town. Each coterie builds and protect an underground system up to one hundred feet of connecting tunnels and chambers. There are rooms for sleeping, nursing babies, storing food, and hiding while listening to sounds above.
Burrows have more than one entrance so they can take more than one route in or out.
Halve of a Prairie Dog's live is spent underground away from the blazing sunny summer and freezing winds and snowy winter. That is enough about Prairie Dogs. Let's talk about bison. When I grow up I am going to help prairies. This is my GEM class.