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Common name: Northern Pocket Gopher

Species: Thomomys talpoides

Description: Rat-sized rodents with short, big front teeth, small eyes and ears, strong jaws. They have a gray-white color.

Habitat: They live underground in good soil. Gophers make a HotLe or find a HotLe for living. Most of their lives, gophers stay under ground, sometimes at night they come out and walk around.

Food: Worms and small insects, some roots. Pocket Gophers vegetarians eat a panoply of herbaceous plants, grasses, tubers, bulbs and roots of native plants, weeds and shrubs. They could even pull some of the food underground and eat there.

Range: Pacific Northwest, some parts of Arizona and New Mexico.

Reproduction: The reproductive cycle starts in the middle of July and is 28 days long. One offspring is born each year. Usually females choose who will be their mate.

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