Sentence examples for eat prairie from inspiring English sources

Getting those rodents to scarf down the drone-fired bait would keep them healthy, which in turn would help the ferrets, because black-footed ferrets eat prairie dogs.

At many preserves, buffaloes, which eat prairie grasses and so keep them from overwhelming leafy plants, either have been introduced or are to be introduced.

Ranchers complain that prairie dogs destroy grazing grasses, but conservationists argue that black-footed ferrets, an endangered species, need to eat prairie dogs to survive.

"But once they do, they become killing machines".Ranchers protested against the reintroduction of wolves, but they rather like the ferrets; anything that eats prairie dogs can't be that bad.

The Navajo people ate prairie dog baked in mud, while the Paiute ate gophers, squirrels, and rats.

In the wild, horses ate prairie grasses in semi-arid regions and traveled significant distances each day in order to obtain adequate nutrition.

Black-footed ferrets live in prairie-dog burrows and eat only prairie dogs, both as prey and as carrion.

Poisons used to control prairie dogs, especially sodium monofluoroacetate (commonly called 1080) and strychnine, probably contribute to deaths when the ferrets eat poisoned prairie dogs.

The prairie dogs eat the pellets, are protected from the plague, and serve as ferret fodder instead.

In addition to grass used for grazing cattle, the prairie dogs eat crops, and their burrows make it difficult to get around by motor vehicle or on horseback, Mr. Kirkham said.

McCollister notes that "the bottom line is that prairie dogs eat grass, and that can be a problem for some people". It is a problem for many, but not for all.