Sentence examples for that prairie from inspiring English sources

It happens that prairie voles tend to be monogamous while their rogue cousins, the mountain voles, are usually not.

"During this, they'll talk about the fact that prairie dogs have cheek pouches," said Diana Heide, a zoo spokeswoman.

Even oil and gas wells could exist on such land if the density of tall structures that prairie chickens fear is limited.

A major problem, biologists say, is that prairie chickens fear tall structures, where predators like hawks can perch and spot them.

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.

Research suggests that prairie dogs play a keystone role in grassland ecosystems.

So it is that prairies and canyon-lands are aggressively strip-mined, giant wind-farms are established on Scottish moors, and peat-moss is turfed into Ireland's peat-fuelled power stations.

They have proposed that prairie-dog burrows act as sites for seasonal flea proliferation and exchange among all burrow occupants, thus inducing peak transmissions of Yersinia (Friggens et al. 2010).

Fleas that prefer prairie dog blood will feed on and infect a person who wanders through a prairie dog village after a plague-associated prairie dog die off.

In 1936 an official inquiry by the Bank of Canada revealed that the Prairie Provinces were near bankruptcy.

Where is it believed that the prairie dogs came in contact with the monkeypox virus?