The rainfall is between 10 to 30 inches a year. Prairies can be tropical or temperate. Prairie Dogs-I'm sure you have heard about prairie dogs. Prairie dogs live in Central and North America. They only live in short grass prairies.
Prairie dogs are very different from their name.
They got there name from pioneers. The pioneers thought that there yelps sounded like a dog barking. Bison-You might not know what bison are but I bet you know what buffalo are. Bison and buffalo are different. Bison live in the North American prairies and plains and buffalo live in Africa.