Animal Town of the Prairie: Prairie Dogs and Their Neighbor

Duration: 11

Year Published: 1956

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Study of a prairie dog town which shows how the animals reshape their environment to better suit their needs through their tireless construction of burrows, and their collective eating habits. Explains that other animals such as burrowing owls, rattlesnakes, skunks, and cotton tail rabbits take over the abandoned burrows to use as nesting places, temporary shelters, as a refuge from predatory animals, and as a place to hibernate during the winter. Collaborator, Charles C. Carpenter

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