Talk:Prairie dog

message: I came here to learn about these animals beeing vectors for certain virusis. I did not find anything. 217.249.48.97 (talk) 20:58, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You're welcome to add new material! Nazgul02 (talk) 14:08, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Vector fpr zoonosis?

message: http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=108412 —Omegatron 19:59, 6 December 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I have worked this citation into the article (finally). —mjb 05:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Prairie dog language

message: Along with reducing a great deal of redundancy and making copyedits and wikilink fixes, I've placed citation request templates throughout the article. I've done this basically anywhere that a possibly controversial claim has been made. It is evident that there are people who are editing this article who have a conservation agenda, so it seems reasonable to ask for documentation to verify any claims, no matter how plausible, about near-extinctions, prairie dogs as pests being a mistaken impression, and so on.
Also, there is also a fair amount of information in the Black-tailed Prairie Dog article that is noteworthy and relevant to prairie dogs in general. In particular, there is more detail about the animal's role in the ecosystem and as pets. If no one gets around to it, I will eventually work on it, but I'd like someone else to give it a shot, first. —mjb 22:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since I was the one that wrote most of the 'conservation status' and 'captivity' stuff in Black-tailed Prairie Dog I figured I might as well do the merge. I also did some Google searching and came up with references for various claims and clarified that prairie dogs -are- capable of damaging crops, and gave it a citation. -Dawson 19:38, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome. Thanks!—mjb 17:56, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge and citation requests

message: I propose that the two wikipedia articles on prairie dog subspecies (Utah Prairie Dog and Black-tailed Prairie Dog be merged into the Prairie Dog article.  Almost all of the information in the two subspecies articles are included in the main prairie dog article - in fact, much of it is cut-and-pasted in.  I've been updating the various pages with links to recent studies, and it is nightmarish to make sure all the pages are in synch.  And personally, I don't think the subspecies are unique or notable enough to warrant their own articles.  Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Adagio 18:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It all sounds good, though you may just consider adding the distributions to the existing species list.  --Aranae 22:23, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal

message: it is a rare problem but there is too many image on this article and it has destroyed all page formatting yuckfoo 03:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've taken a hand at fixing that. In addition to moving where the images were in the article and playing with the left-right alignment, I've also moved three images into a new "additional images" section. This was an editorial decision based on what the image was illustrating relevant to the text. The images in additional images could be re-integrated into the text at some point when the article gets larger. --Martinship 00:41, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: too many images

message: There appears to be vandalism in the Units Conversion Template (inches to cm, pounds to kg, etc) with some kind of 4chan meme "herd you like mudkipz" appearing in the rendered text after conversion is applied. I don't know how to work with Templates well enough to track down and correct this type of vandalism. Should we change this article on Prairie Dogs (temporarily?) to avoid using the Template until it is fixed? Does anybody know how to work with Template:Conversion sufficiently to track down the source of the vandalism wherever it was inserted into the code? Teledildonix314 Talk ~  contributions 21:39, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, i went to the Administrators' Notice Boards and asked somebody to fix it, so it all seems fine now. Problem solved by a helpful volunteer, back to our regularly scheduled programming. Teledildonix314 Talk ~  contributions 22:12, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  vandalism in units conversion template? 

message: Prairie dogs and meerkats seem to have very similar in behavior. Can anyone who knows more about these two species, please add a section about the similarities to the prairie dog and meerkat pages. I think a section like that will be really interesting.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.66.187.172 (talk) 17:44, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prairie dogs and meerkats 

message: This is a notice to inform interested editors of a new WikiProject being proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Rodents --﻿ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 02:04, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Rodents 

message: sometimes prairie dogs get hurt/dangered i was thinking about how they do so thats why i'm doing a projet on prairie dogs so i can tell people to litter in the grasslands/dessert,so they can be safe even when the prairie dogs do the pain there self's so we cansave all the prairie dogs=) =p  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.124.219 (talk) 20:30, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  prairie dogs  

message: The image :File:Kissing Prairie dog.JPG should be replaced with the higher quality edit :File:Kissing Prairie dog edit 3.jpg, which is recognized as a Commons VP. --84.44.254.108 (talk) 11:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Makes sense.   Chzz  ►  12:16, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: editsemiprotected request

message: Is there any reason the Featured Picture of the prairie dog was eliminated from this posting? This entry has many pictures, but it makes sense to include the highest-possible quality photos. I realize it does not show the full body, so perhaps it is advisable to leave the current picture in the infobox. But perhaps we can add it to the entry, and consolidate some of the other photos to a gallery? Full Disclosure: I am author of the featured picture. --Asiir (talk) 16:59, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it should be kept and as such have added it back. I'm not entirely sure of its placement so I've stuck it somewhere that didn't appear to disrupt anything - feel free to shuffle about! Nikthestoned 16:10, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured Picture inclusion

message: the bit on prarie dogging in the first section absolutely does not belong hereSeeasea (talk) 02:25, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  prarie dogging 

message: I came here looking for a link on their burrowing and colonizing habits.
I understand that they sometimes burrow in a single colony several square miles in a network.
there is no information at all here, maybe make a section or article that links here on burrows?Seeasea (talk) 02:28, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  prarie dog colonies 

message: To whoever it concerns: A small act of vandilism on my part was enacted on this article. For a short, no more than 5 minute, period, the conservation status section had that praire dogs could breath fire and release electricity.  I am sorry if this false information inconvienienced anyone and have since deleted that part of the entry.  In adding this, I meant no harm to any user of this fantastic site and only did this for a satirical paper on the general populace's trust on Wikipedia entries. Be assured that no false information by me or anything related to me exists within the article any more. Sorry about the vandalism as even though I had no intention of misleading anyone, it was still vandilism. Thank you for your time and, hopefully, understanding.72.77.68.65 (talk) 12:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Fact Added then Deleted 

message: As someone pointed out, the statement "When hiding from predators, prairie dogs use less deep chambers that are usually a meter below the surface. Nursery chambers tend to be deeper, being 2-2 ½ feet below the surface." is contradictory. 2 feet is less than one meter. Could somebody provide reliable data on this? Nazgul02 (talk) 14:16, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have corrected the text.  According to the diagrams on page 27 of the reference pdf, the nursery chambers are 2-3 meters below the surface.  76.105.171.161 (talk) 07:35, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Units 

message: The citation to the incorrect claim that these pests don't kill horses is misleading.  The incorrect claim in the citation is about cattle and not horses.  It's wrong twice over.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.228.116.228 (talk) 21:51, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect citation about the danger to horses 

message: Perhaps an addendum might be made to the alarm call section of the article introducing the latest Slobodchikoff findings:
"New research suggests that the (burrowing) owls don't just gain a free home from the prairie dogs, but they also eavesdrop on the prairie dogs' sophisticated alarm calls, which scientists have described as a rudimentary form of grammar. The owls, less than a foot high, sneak tips about lurking predators from their highly vocal housemates, according to a study in next month’s Ethology." 
Sources: http://www.insidescience.org/content/squatting-owls-eavesdrop-prairie-dogs/1535 
Of course, it might be advisable for the addendum to wait for the Ethology article, but this talk section migt serve as a reminder...
--Terminally uncool (talk) 16:08, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eavesdropping cohabitants 

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message: What causes prairie dogs to migrate from existing colony to establish a new one? 72.255.161.113 (talk) 19:01, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What causes prairie dogs to migrate from existing colony to establish a new colony