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Plains pocket gopher

Index Plains pocket gopher

The plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) is one of 35 species of pocket gophers, so named in reference to their externally located, fur-lined cheek pouches. [1]

41 relations: American badger, Arkansas, Basal metabolic rate, Cheek pouch, Convection, Embryonic diapause, Fossorial, George Shaw, Gopher, Great Plains, Herbivore, Holocene, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Lampropeltis calligaster, Least-concern species, Manitoba, Minnesota, Missouri, Multimodal distribution, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pituophis catenifer, Pleistocene, Rattlesnake, Rhaphidophoridae, Scarabaeidae, Silphidae, Tennessee, Terrestrial animal, Texas, Thirteen-lined ground squirrel, Tympanuchus, Weaning, Wisconsin, Wisconsin glaciation, Zygomatic bone, Zygote.

American badger

The American badger (Taxidea taxus) is a North American badger, somewhat similar in appearance to the European badger.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Basal metabolic rate

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of energy expenditure per unit time by endothermic animals at rest.

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Cheek pouch

Cheek pouches are pockets on both sides of the head of some mammals between the jaw and the cheek.

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Convection

Convection is the heat transfer due to bulk movement of molecules within fluids such as gases and liquids, including molten rock (rheid).

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Embryonic diapause

Delayed implantation or embryonic diapause is a reproductive strategy used by approximately 100 different mammals in seven or eight different orders.

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Fossorial

Cape ground squirrel. A fossorial (from Latin fossor, "digger") is an animal adapted to digging and lives primarily, but not solely, underground.

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George Shaw

George Kearsley Shaw (10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist.

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Gopher

Pocket gophers, commonly referred to as gophers, are burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Lampropeltis calligaster

Lampropeltis calligaster is a species of kingsnake known commonly as the prairie kingsnake.

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Least-concern species

A least concern (LC) species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated but not qualified for any other category.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Multimodal distribution

In statistics, a bimodal distribution is a continuous probability distribution with two different modes.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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North Dakota

North Dakota is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States.

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Pituophis catenifer

Pituophis catenifer is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake endemic to North America.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Rattlesnake

Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers).

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Rhaphidophoridae

The orthopteran family Rhaphidophoridae includes the cave weta, cave crickets, camelback crickets, camel crickets, spider crickets (sometimes shortened to "criders", or "land shrimp" or "sprickets") and sand treaders, of the suborder Ensifera.

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Scarabaeidae

The family Scarabaeidae as currently defined consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide, often called scarabs or scarab beetles.

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Silphidae

Silphidae is a family of beetles that are known commonly as large carrion beetles, carrion beetles or burying beetles.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g., fish, lobsters, octopuses), or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g., frogs, or newts).

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Thirteen-lined ground squirrel

The thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus), also known as the striped gopher, leopard ground squirrel, squinney, and as the leopard-spermophile in Audubon’s day, is a ground squirrel.

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Tympanuchus

Tympanuchus is a small genus of birds in the grouse family.

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Weaning

Weaning is the process of gradually introducing an infant mammal to what will be its adult diet and withdrawing the supply of its mother's milk.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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Wisconsin glaciation

The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsinan glaciation, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex.

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Zygomatic bone

In the human skull, the zygomatic bone (cheekbone or malar bone) is a paired bone which articulates with the maxilla, the temporal bone, the sphenoid bone and the frontal bone.

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Zygote

A zygote (from Greek ζυγωτός zygōtos "joined" or "yoked", from ζυγοῦν zygoun "to join" or "to yoke") is a eukaryotic cell formed by a fertilization event between two gametes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_pocket_gopher

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