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Prairie dogs live in the grasslands of North America, where they’re a keystone species. Despite their name, they aren’t really dogs, but a kind of ground squirrel.
Over the last 200 years, hunting has decimated the prairie dog population from around 5 billion to just 2% of that number. And now they’re facing another threat: plague. Is there any way to save them from this double danger?
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📖 Scientific sources:
Terrestrial vertebrate communities at black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns
Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from: [ Ссылка ] [accessed 16 Dec, 2021]
Plague - Ecology & Transmission
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD), August 6, 2021
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Plague - Maps and Statistics, Plague in the United States
Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD), May 27, 2021
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Plague: Past, Present, and Future
PLoS Medicine 5(1):e3, DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050003, SourcePubMed, February 2008
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Evidence for the involvement of an alternate rodent host in the dynamics of introduced plague in prairie dogs
Journal of Animal Ecology, 4 June 2009
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Population dynamics of reintroduced Gunnison's Prairie dogs in the southern portion of their range
The Journal of Wildlife Management, 10 March 2014
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📷 Footage sources:
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Josiah Gregg_Commerce of the Prairies_1855.jpeg
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first published photograph of prairie dog town_Allen Wallihan_1893.jpeg
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all other photographs: Getty Images
