The basic habits of these two animals are also different, with gophers preferring to live underground and store their food, while groundhogs are often found above ground and do not store their food.

Pocket gophers are so named because they have fur-lined pouches or “pockets” in their cheeks in which the herbivores transport food. The groundhog, Marmota monax, is a stout rodent related to ...

Sadly gopher tortoises are struggling to survive as their habitat is destroyed for urban development. They need large, unfragmented parcels of undeveloped land, so any disruptions or barriers in their ...