A chubby body, short tail and legs — I realized that I was seeing a plains pocket gopher. Pocket gophers (not to be confused with the "gopher" of Minnesota fame, which is not really a gopher ...

The pocket gopher, immortalized as Carl Spackler’s fossorial nemesis in the movie Caddyshack, dug around the researcher’s barricades, filled in the section isolated for study, blocked it off from ...

Pocket gophers are so named because they have fur ... Its front feet have long, curved claws that are good for digging the complex burrow systems it inhabits. Native to North America, groundhogs ...

74, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 517-536 (20 pages) Five new species of Aphodius (dyspistus, tanytarsus, hubbelli, platypleurus, and pholetus), collected in the burrows of pocket gophers (Geomys pinetus ...

“It’s insane.” The gopher tortoise population on Fort De Soto is now likely 10 times larger than before Helene, with more than 80 confirmed burrows across the park, Yu said. And more active ...

“Each one of these poles marks a gopher tortoise burrow, and gopher tortoises dig burrows into the ground. And that’s where they live,” said Janet Windisch, the corresponding secretary for ...