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Introduction and our video
Prairie dog facts
- Is a prairie dog really a dog?
Classification: rodent, ground squirrel
- How many kinds of prairie dogs are there? 5
Mexican, Utah, Gunnison, White-tailed, Black-tailed
- When do they give birth?
Life on the Prairie/Prairie Dog Towns
- What is the short-grass prairie ecosystem?
- Who lives there and what did it look like 150 years ago?(show posters)
- Why are prairie dogs considered a Keystone Species?
- The food chain: Grass>Prairie Dog>Coyote>Turkey Vulture
Decline of the prairie dog
- Development and agriculture
- Plague, a non-native bacterial disease
Where does it come from?
Is there a threat to humans? Why not?
Conservation and why we need to set aside land
The pet issue and the story of New York's "Fire Island Philomena".
Show Disney's "Vanishing Prairie" clip
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