prairie dogs

Rodents such as squirrels and prairie dogs have no chance of outrunning a coyote, but they can always escape into their burrows.

比如像松鼠和土拔鼠这类啮齿动物，虽然它们跑不过土狼，但它们总能逃进它们挖的洞里。

A typical coterie-the name for a family of prairie dogs-is made up of one male, several females, and all the juvenile offspring of the group.

一个典型的土拨鼠圈子——土拨鼠家庭的专属名称——由一只雄性土拨鼠，几只雌性土拨鼠和它们所有的幼崽组成。

Chipmunks and prairie dogs are kinds of squirrels.

金花鼠和草原犬鼠都属于松鼠类动物。

Thus, the mass murders of the spring are soon forgotten, and the prairie dogs go back to their simple lives as cute, furry herbivores.

因此，春季的互相厮杀很快被抛之脑后，土拨鼠又重新回到它们作为可爱的毛茸茸食草动物的简单生活。

Traceback investigations have found a common distributor of exotic pets where prairie dogs and Gambian giant rats were housed together in Illinois.

反推研究发现，在伊利诺伊州有一类外来共同传播者，在那里草原狗和冈比亚巨田鼠居住在一起。

We're called the "Prairie dogs."

我们被称为“土拨鼠”。

One seven-year study published in the 1980s showed that acts of cannibalism in colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs caused the deaths of some offspring in 51 percent of all litters.

发布于20世纪80年代的一项长达七年的科学研究指出，在黑尾土拨鼠聚居地发生的同类残食行为导致了51%的幼崽死亡。

Prairie dogs are hated by ranchers, who say their burrows pose a danger to cattle. So they are poisoned on a large scale.

农场主们憎恨草原野狗，因为他们认为野狗们的洞穴会对牛构成威胁，所以对它们进行了大规模的毒杀。

Prairie dogs chiefly live in the Great Plains of North America.

草原袋鼠主要分布在北美的大平原上.

The prairie dogs' actions become even more twisted, however, weeks after the killing spree-many females attempt to nurse the very same prairie dog pups that they had tried to eat not long before.

土拨鼠的行为甚至会变得更加扭曲。杀戮盛宴过去几周后——许多雌鼠会试图照料它们不久前想要吃掉的幼崽。

Now maybe you could say that the prairie dog's message is built from smaller parts, like say for example, our prairie dogs spot a predator, a big coyote approaching rapidly.

而也许你会说草原犬鼠发出的信息是来自更小部分的信息，比如，草原犬鼠发现捕猎者，一只草原狼正在迅速靠近。

For the prairie dogs are good farmers.

草原地鼠是非常出色的农夫。

Prairie dogs, unlike many ground squirrels, live together in big burrows on the western prairies.

草原犬鼠和许多地松鼠不一样，群居在西部大草原的大地洞中。

In the USA, the virus is thought to have been transmitted from African animals to a number of susceptible non-African species ( like prairie dogs) with which they were co-housed.

在美国，人们认为该病毒是从非洲动物传给与其混在一起的许多具有易感性的非非洲物种的（像草原犬）。

Though not completely dormant during the winter, prairie dogs return to activity and aboveground life in earnest in spring.

尽管它们在冬天不是完全冬眠，但土拨鼠要到春天才真正开始它们的陆上活动。

Prairie dogs may be able to tell you about a hawk at circling over head right now, but they never show any inclination to describe the one they saw last week.

草原犬鼠也许能够跟你说你的上空有一只老鹰正在盘旋，但是他们从来没有能够描述上周看到的东西。

And for those of you who don't know, prairie dogs are not actually dogs.

而你们中可能有人不知道，草原犬鼠实际上不是狗，

Transmission of monkeypox among persons exposed to infected prairie dogs in Indiana in 2003

2003年印第安那州猴痘病毒在接触获感牧羊犬人群中的传播

in the west and midwest there are gophers and prairie dogs, and in the east, chipmunks. ground hogs are another kind of ground squirrel.

美国的西部和中西部有黄鼠和草原犬鼠。在东部有金花鼠。美洲旱獭是另类地松鼠。

Other animals can communicate& the alarm calls of prairie dogs to warn of a nearby predator, say, or the meowing of a hungry cat to tell its owner to put food down.

其他动物也会交流&土拨鼠警觉的叫声是在警告其他伙伴周围有捕食者；饥饿的猫喵喵地叫是告诉它的主人赶紧把食物放下来给它吃。

I mean I mention this cause like in my biology class last year, I kind of remember talking about a study on prairie dogs, where, I think the researchers claimed that the warning cries of prairie dogs constitute language, because they have this, different parts of speech.

就像我去年在生物课上说到的，我记得当时讲到一次关于草原犬鼠的研究。我想研究人员宣称草原犬鼠发出的警告声构成了语言，因为它们这种不同的说话的能力。

They are also home to various wildlife, including bison, elk , coyotes, and prairie dogs.

它们也是各式野生动物的家乡, 包括北美野牛 、 美洲赤鹿 、 郊狼及草原土拨鼠.

It was the day the Prairie dogs lost the big playoff game.

那天“土拨鼠”队输了那场大型季后赛。

The prairie dogs are fun to watch as they are very active and clever.'

观察草原土拨鼠很有趣，因为它们非常活跃也非常聪明。

Out on the American plains, prairie dogs certainly seem to think so.

在美国大平原上，土拨鼠似乎觉得这是天经地义的。

The prairie dogs stayed out of school and fought the tax levy because the administration would not add digging and burrowing to the curriculum.

山拨鼠游离在学校之外，对抗税收，因为行政部门未将挖掘和打洞穴列入课程。

They are also home to various wildlife, including bison, elk, coyotes, and prairie dogs.

它们也是各式野生动物的家乡，包括北美野牛、洲赤鹿、狼及草原土拨鼠。