pocket gopher

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pocket
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɒk.ɪt/us
/ˈpɑː.kɪt/
a small bag for carrying things in, made of cloth and sewn into the inside or onto the outside of a piece ...
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gopher
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɡəʊ.fər/us
/ˈɡoʊ.fɚ/
a North American animal that lives in holes that it makes in ...
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(Definition ofpocketandgopherfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thepocketgopheris also a solitary animal outside the breeding season, each individual digging a complex tunnel system and maintaining a territory.
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Mostpocketgopherspecies are relatively common and not of conservation concern.
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The namepocketgopheron its own may be used to refer to any of a number of genera within the family.
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Hibernation sites were always withinpocketgopherburrow systems.
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Pocketgopherabundance is dependent upon an abundance of herbaceous groundcover and loose, sandy soils.
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They frequently use abandonedpocketgopherand ground squirrel burrows as hibernacula.
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Up to 90% of radio-tagged snake relocations have been underground inpocketgopherburrow systems, and movement patterns are typically from one pocket gopher burrow system to another.
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Males and females may share some burrows and nesting chambers if their territories border each other, but in general, eachpocketgopherinhabits its own individual tunnel system.
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A special note about the northernpocketgopheris that it rarely appears above ground; when it does, it rarely ventures more than 2.5 feet from a burrow entrance.
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Adaptive nature of chromosomal rearrangement : differential fitness in pocket gophers.
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On transition bias in mitochondrial genes of pocket gophers.
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Pocket gophers in ecosystems: patterns and mechanisms.
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Although they have very effective digging claws, they prefer to occupy dens that are made by gophers, wood rats, pocket gophers, striped skunks, or armadillos.
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It is also home to species called pocket gophers, skunks, squirrels, snakes and bats.
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These park-like forests supported ideal habitat for pocket gophers and, subsequently, pine snakes.
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Pocket gophers dig burrows underneath it during the winter.
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Pocket gophers are solitary outside of the breeding season, aggressively maintaining territories that vary in size depending on the resources available.
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The island's fauna is dominated by rodents such as pocket gophers, marsh rice rats and cotton rats.
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They are similar to the pocket gophers but lack cheek pouches.
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Pocket gophers, badgers, sage grouse, sage sparrows, and the sage thrasher are associated with the sagebrush habitat.
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