Master Coyote stands nearby and gobbles up all the stray gophersthat bolt to escape the invading badger.
But no sooner is the badger hard at work than a gray form seems to rise out of the earth, a coyote who had been slinking to the rear all the while; and as the terrified gophers scurry here, scurry there, coyote's white teeth snap!
Sunning themselves in the last rays of daylight, the gophersperch on their hind legs to wait developments of what the jay announced.
Badgers run most where gophers sit sunning themselves on the clay mounds, ready to bolt down to their subterranean burrows on the first approach of an enemy.
The underground galleries of the gophers connect and lead up to different exits.
Gophers start up and skurry away at the noise of the train.
There are hundreds of gophers popping out of their holes, and as we see them close, sitting up with their long bodies, they look like tiny kangaroos.
Four new pocket gophersof the genus Cratogeomys from Jalisco, Mexico.
Most of these pocket gophers were caught in areas supporting a good growth of pine trees in the same places where the much larger pocket gopher, Cratogeomys gymnurus, lived.
The average weight of these gophers was 86 grams in males and 74 grams in females, or only an eighth as much as in Cratogeomys.
The habit of burrowing at different levels probably was one factor which permitted the two kinds of pocket gophers to live in the same area.
Thomomys bottae sanctidiegi~ Huey In his discussion of the pocketgophers of Baja California, Huey (Trans.
These specimens have not, to our knowledge, been re-examined subsequently, although the current taxonomic treatment of the pocket gophers of Baja California by Huey (Trans.
I was able to kill a few ducks with it and I also hunted gophers during May when the sprouting corn was in most danger.
Around us, on the swells, gray gophers whistled, and the nesting plover quaveringly called.
Revision of the pocket gophers of the genus Cratogeomys.
When we had passed the last Chinese village and were well in the Mongolian grasslands we had great fun shooting gophers (Citellus mongolicus umbratus) from the cars.
In this instance, however, the populations of gophers are separated by soils of heavy texture which render burrowing difficult or impossible for gophers.
These large gophers are difficult to collect, and I am grateful to him for securing this significant material.
Little long-tailed gophers whisked across the whitened sod, and when the great plow rolled through the shadows of a bluff, jack rabbits, pied white and gray, scurried amidst the rustling leaves.
The slope they thundered down was undermined by gophers and seamed by badger-holes, but they took their chances gleefully, sparing no effort of hand and heel, for the sum of twenty dollars and the credit of being first man in.
Dogs killed gophers if they caught them, and human beings killed chickens for Sunday dinners.
If gophers could kill dogs it would rather have gophers; when microbes kill us it will rather have microbes than people.
Owing to these circumstances, the pictures of gophers of even recent date represent really monstrous animals, when they honestly intend to familiarize us with the gopher.
Audubon kept several gophers in captivity for months, feeding them on potatoes.
In North America it is employed for certain small jumping rat-like rodents nearly allied to the pocket-gophers and belonging to the family Geomyidae.
Most of these pocketgophers lived where there was a good growth of pine trees in the same areas where large pocket gophers of the species Cratogeomys gymnurus occurred.
Nowhere else, except 3 to 5 miles south of Patzcuaro, have the authors found two kinds of pocket gophers living together.
Pocket gophers from Clover Creek, Onaqui Mountains and Little Valley, Sheeprock Mountains, although intergrades between robustus and albicaudatus are dark in color like stansburyi.
It would be instructive to artificially transplant gophersfrom mountains to valleys, and vice versa, so as to reveal what effects if any on the animals' morphology the environment might have in one or a few generations.
Pocket gophers were found only at the type locality, Swasey Spring, which is well above the highest level of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville.
This is understandable because gophers from mountains usually are smaller and have weaker, smoother skulls than animals from low lands.
The continuation of this area of wasteland southward beyond the Dirty Devil River is inhabited by pocket gophers belonging to the subspecies absonus.
Although sought for elsewhere on this island, pocket gophers were found only in the farmed land.
The terrain between the Desert Range Experiment Station in Pine Valley and Snake Creek (where centralis occurs) to the west is not inhabited by pocket gophers at present.
Gophers from Salt Lake City and environs (east of the river) vary in color from almost black to dark cinnamon.
Revision of the pocket gophers of the genus Thomomys.
Unquestionably the easiest route of migration into the St. George area is down the Virgin River from Zion National Park; no barrier to gophers occurs between the Park and St. George.
Before the work had been long completed, gophers appeared on the banks and began to burrow their holes.
These gophers are little animals, striped and spotted, and about the size of a large rat.
It was very still and hot, and the cheep and trill of the gophers and the chatter of the kingbirds alone broke the silence.
Lily was looking out, and listening to the gophers whistling as they raced to and fro.
These large gophers were difficult to trap by ordinary means; Schaldach got two by using large-sized Macabee traps but the others were taken at night either with the aid of a dog or by natives with slingshots.
In addition to workability of the soil, the presence of herbaceous plants, many of them weedy annuals, is probably the most important factor governing the success of pocket gophers in a local area.
Little evidence of pocket gophers was found on unusually rocky slopes, steep slopes, or in stands of pinyon and juniper or in relatively pure stands of oak-brush.
The pocket gophers of the Mesa Verde and vicinity are of one species, Thomomys bottae.
Let them huntgophers and grasshoppers in the meadows.
They brought grasshoppers and gophers from the hunt next day, and Sedit was satisfied.
That is what we keep them for, to hunt the gophersand rabbits and moles.
He had also tried drowning the poor little gophers out by pouring water down their holes.
He had been greatly troubled by gophers and rabbits: the gophers killed his trees by gnawing their roots; the rabbits burrowed under his vines, ate the tender young leaves, and gnawed the stems.
The gophers and squirrels in this country are a great deal worse than rats and mice.
Rea was glad when they were all gone; but Jusy missed the fun of seeing them huntgophers and linnets.
It does not hurt the linnets half so much to be shot dead in one second, as it does the gophers to be caught in the cats' claws, and torn to pieces sometimes while they are yet alive.
It seems a great pity to have to kill them all off; but there is no help for it; fruit-trees and gophers cannot live in the same place.
If one cat will kill one gopher in a day, twenty cats would kill twenty gophers in a day!
They never took deadgophers up there, or snakes; only the rabbits.
And don't you see, if we have twenty, and they all hunt gophers as well as she does, we'll soon have the place cleared?
But," said Anita, "my little señorita did not mind having the gophers killed.
The other pail's got dead gophers in it, and Jardine allows he caught cookie fishing more of them out of the water he used for the tea.
It is almost impossible for anybody to keep them out of the wells in dry weather; but nobody minds a few gophers in this country.
I do not know that even gophers would be worse than the canned goose livers and other disgusting things we import for their weight in silver," she said.
All the gophers in the country have collected around my grain and wells.
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