I came here to learn about these animals beeing vectors for certain virusis. I did not find anything. 217.249.48.97 ( talk) 20:58, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Should there be a mention of the popular internet meme based on the animal? LethalHobo 21:28, April 1 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.6.127.233 ( talk)
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=108412 — Omegatron 19:59, 6 December 2004 (UTC)
Why is it that prairie dogs are said to be pests to "ranchers"? If they cause damage to crops, then they're pests to farmers, not ranchers. The latter raise livestock, which is not threatened by herbivorous rodents. — 71.32.244.55 02:42, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
They are actually good for the land. They fertilize the vegetation and make the grass more succulent by their minimal grazing.
I just asked a rancher, and she said that prairie dogs kill enough grass to allow poisonous weeds (like pigweed) to grow, killing the cattle. Normally the grass is competitive enough to keep the poisonous weeds out of the pasture land, but the prairie dogs remove this natural barrier, especially during dry seasons.
ranchers have fields that they let their cattle graze on. they do raise crops to a degree. also, I'm surprised this article makes no reference to prairie dog hunting, which is very common. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.100.68.42 ( talk) 13:08, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Here is a reference for information about how prairie dogs are a nuisance to ranchers. I don't know if it's relevant enough to add to the article. Probably more relevant than the bubonic plague?
"Even today, they remain perhaps the most hated rodent in the West, because ranchers fear that prairie dogs colonies will eat pastures bare." [1] Rose M. Welch 21:21, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
References
Someone should write about the fact that they make great pets and it's a shame they were made illegal because of some disease that can probably be vaccinated against. — 65.248.169.5 03:42, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Since when is there a monkeypox vaccine? If you want a pet, you should get something that's domesticated. Fancy rats make lovely pets, and THEY'RE NOT WILD ANIMALS. Sumanuil ( talk) 03:41, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Along with reducing a great deal of redundancy and making copyedits and wikilink fixes, I've placed citation request templates throughout the article. I've done this basically anywhere that a possibly controversial claim has been made. It is evident that there are people who are editing this article who have a conservation agenda, so it seems reasonable to ask for documentation to verify any claims, no matter how plausible, about near-extinctions, prairie dogs as pests being a mistaken impression, and so on.
Also, there is also a fair amount of information in the Black-tailed Prairie Dog article that is noteworthy and relevant to prairie dogs in general. In particular, there is more detail about the animal's role in the ecosystem and as pets. If no one gets around to it, I will eventually work on it, but I'd like someone else to give it a shot, first. — mjb 22:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
I propose that the two wikipedia articles on prairie dog subspecies ( Utah Prairie Dog and Black-tailed Prairie Dog be merged into the Prairie Dog article. Almost all of the information in the two subspecies articles are included in the main prairie dog article - in fact, much of it is cut-and-pasted in. I've been updating the various pages with links to recent studies, and it is nightmarish to make sure all the pages are in synch. And personally, I don't think the subspecies are unique or notable enough to warrant their own articles. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Adagio 18:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Note: I added Mexican Prairie Dog to the list of potential pages to be merged today. Adagio 16:28, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Ok, how is this for an acceptable alternative. Your thoughts, please.
My thoughts: I like this approach, as it keeps pages for each of the species, but avoids redundancy. My main concern is that, after cleaning up and citing a more recent population study for the Black Tailed prairie dog, I found that that species had its own article that cited the older, outdated studies. If I hadn't found that, we would have two different articles with different facts cited, meaning one of them would be incorrect. My hope is to set up the articles in such a way that situations like this can be avoided. Adagio 16:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
it is a rare problem but there is too many image on this article and it has destroyed all page formatting yuckfoo 03:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
There appears to be vandalism in the Units Conversion Template (inches to cm, pounds to kg, etc) with some kind of 4chan meme "herd you like mudkipz" appearing in the rendered text after conversion is applied. I don't know how to work with Templates well enough to track down and correct this type of vandalism. Should we change this article on Prairie Dogs (temporarily?) to avoid using the Template until it is fixed? Does anybody know how to work with Template:Conversion sufficiently to track down the source of the vandalism wherever it was inserted into the code? Teledildonix314 Talk ~ contributions 21:39, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Prairie dogs and meerkats seem to have very similar in behavior. Can anyone who knows more about these two species, please add a section about the similarities to the prairie dog and meerkat pages. I think a section like that will be really interesting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.66.187.172 ( talk) 17:44, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
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sometimes prairie dogs get hurt/dangered i was thinking about how they do so thats why i'm doing a projet on prairie dogs so i can tell people to litter in the grasslands/dessert,so they can be safe even when the prairie dogs do the pain there self's so we cansave all the prairie dogs=) =p —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.124.219 ( talk) 20:30, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
The image File:Kissing Prairie dog.JPG should be replaced with the higher quality edit File:Kissing Prairie dog edit 3.jpg, which is recognized as a Commons VP. -- 84.44.254.108 ( talk) 11:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Done
Is there any reason the Featured Picture of the prairie dog was eliminated from this posting? This entry has many pictures, but it makes sense to include the highest-possible quality photos. I realize it does not show the full body, so perhaps it is advisable to leave the current picture in the infobox. But perhaps we can add it to the entry, and consolidate some of the other photos to a gallery? Full Disclosure: I am author of the featured picture. -- Asiir ( talk) 16:59, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
the bit on prarie dogging in the first section absolutely does not belong here Seeasea ( talk) 02:25, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I came here looking for a link on their burrowing and colonizing habits.
I understand that they sometimes burrow in a single colony several square miles in a network.
there is no information at all here, maybe make a section or article that links here on burrows? Seeasea ( talk) 02:28, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
To whoever it concerns: A small act of vandilism on my part was enacted on this article. For a short, no more than 5 minute, period, the conservation status section had that praire dogs could breath fire and release electricity. I am sorry if this false information inconvienienced anyone and have since deleted that part of the entry. In adding this, I meant no harm to any user of this fantastic site and only did this for a satirical paper on the general populace's trust on Wikipedia entries. Be assured that no false information by me or anything related to me exists within the article any more. Sorry about the vandalism as even though I had no intention of misleading anyone, it was still vandilism. Thank you for your time and, hopefully, understanding. 72.77.68.65 ( talk) 12:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
As someone pointed out, the statement "When hiding from predators, prairie dogs use less deep chambers that are usually a meter below the surface. Nursery chambers tend to be deeper, being 2-2 ½ feet below the surface." is contradictory. 2 feet is less than one meter. Could somebody provide reliable data on this? Nazgul02 ( talk) 14:16, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
The citation to the incorrect claim that these pests don't kill horses is misleading. The incorrect claim in the citation is about cattle and not horses. It's wrong twice over. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.228.116.228 ( talk) 21:51, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps an addendum might be made to the alarm call section of the article introducing the latest Slobodchikoff findings:
"New research suggests that the (burrowing) owls don't just gain a free home from the prairie dogs, but they also eavesdrop on the prairie dogs' sophisticated alarm calls, which scientists have described as a rudimentary form of grammar. The owls, less than a foot high, sneak tips about lurking predators from their highly vocal housemates, according to a study in next month’s Ethology."
Sources: http://www.insidescience.org/content/squatting-owls-eavesdrop-prairie-dogs/1535
Of course, it might be advisable for the addendum to wait for the Ethology article, but this talk section migt serve as a reminder... -- Terminally uncool ( talk) 16:08, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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I came here to learn about these animals beeing vectors for certain virusis. I did not find anything. 217.249.48.97 ( talk) 20:58, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Should there be a mention of the popular internet meme based on the animal? LethalHobo 21:28, April 1 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.6.127.233 ( talk)
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=108412 — Omegatron 19:59, 6 December 2004 (UTC)
Why is it that prairie dogs are said to be pests to "ranchers"? If they cause damage to crops, then they're pests to farmers, not ranchers. The latter raise livestock, which is not threatened by herbivorous rodents. — 71.32.244.55 02:42, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
They are actually good for the land. They fertilize the vegetation and make the grass more succulent by their minimal grazing.
I just asked a rancher, and she said that prairie dogs kill enough grass to allow poisonous weeds (like pigweed) to grow, killing the cattle. Normally the grass is competitive enough to keep the poisonous weeds out of the pasture land, but the prairie dogs remove this natural barrier, especially during dry seasons.
ranchers have fields that they let their cattle graze on. they do raise crops to a degree. also, I'm surprised this article makes no reference to prairie dog hunting, which is very common. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.100.68.42 ( talk) 13:08, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Here is a reference for information about how prairie dogs are a nuisance to ranchers. I don't know if it's relevant enough to add to the article. Probably more relevant than the bubonic plague?
"Even today, they remain perhaps the most hated rodent in the West, because ranchers fear that prairie dogs colonies will eat pastures bare." [1] Rose M. Welch 21:21, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
References
Someone should write about the fact that they make great pets and it's a shame they were made illegal because of some disease that can probably be vaccinated against. — 65.248.169.5 03:42, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Since when is there a monkeypox vaccine? If you want a pet, you should get something that's domesticated. Fancy rats make lovely pets, and THEY'RE NOT WILD ANIMALS. Sumanuil ( talk) 03:41, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Along with reducing a great deal of redundancy and making copyedits and wikilink fixes, I've placed citation request templates throughout the article. I've done this basically anywhere that a possibly controversial claim has been made. It is evident that there are people who are editing this article who have a conservation agenda, so it seems reasonable to ask for documentation to verify any claims, no matter how plausible, about near-extinctions, prairie dogs as pests being a mistaken impression, and so on.
Also, there is also a fair amount of information in the Black-tailed Prairie Dog article that is noteworthy and relevant to prairie dogs in general. In particular, there is more detail about the animal's role in the ecosystem and as pets. If no one gets around to it, I will eventually work on it, but I'd like someone else to give it a shot, first. — mjb 22:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
I propose that the two wikipedia articles on prairie dog subspecies ( Utah Prairie Dog and Black-tailed Prairie Dog be merged into the Prairie Dog article. Almost all of the information in the two subspecies articles are included in the main prairie dog article - in fact, much of it is cut-and-pasted in. I've been updating the various pages with links to recent studies, and it is nightmarish to make sure all the pages are in synch. And personally, I don't think the subspecies are unique or notable enough to warrant their own articles. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Adagio 18:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Note: I added Mexican Prairie Dog to the list of potential pages to be merged today. Adagio 16:28, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Ok, how is this for an acceptable alternative. Your thoughts, please.
My thoughts: I like this approach, as it keeps pages for each of the species, but avoids redundancy. My main concern is that, after cleaning up and citing a more recent population study for the Black Tailed prairie dog, I found that that species had its own article that cited the older, outdated studies. If I hadn't found that, we would have two different articles with different facts cited, meaning one of them would be incorrect. My hope is to set up the articles in such a way that situations like this can be avoided. Adagio 16:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
it is a rare problem but there is too many image on this article and it has destroyed all page formatting yuckfoo 03:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
There appears to be vandalism in the Units Conversion Template (inches to cm, pounds to kg, etc) with some kind of 4chan meme "herd you like mudkipz" appearing in the rendered text after conversion is applied. I don't know how to work with Templates well enough to track down and correct this type of vandalism. Should we change this article on Prairie Dogs (temporarily?) to avoid using the Template until it is fixed? Does anybody know how to work with Template:Conversion sufficiently to track down the source of the vandalism wherever it was inserted into the code? Teledildonix314 Talk ~ contributions 21:39, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Prairie dogs and meerkats seem to have very similar in behavior. Can anyone who knows more about these two species, please add a section about the similarities to the prairie dog and meerkat pages. I think a section like that will be really interesting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.66.187.172 ( talk) 17:44, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
This is a notice to inform interested editors of a new WikiProject being proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Rodents -- ΖαππερΝαππερ Babel Alexandria 02:04, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
sometimes prairie dogs get hurt/dangered i was thinking about how they do so thats why i'm doing a projet on prairie dogs so i can tell people to litter in the grasslands/dessert,so they can be safe even when the prairie dogs do the pain there self's so we cansave all the prairie dogs=) =p —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.124.219 ( talk) 20:30, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
The image File:Kissing Prairie dog.JPG should be replaced with the higher quality edit File:Kissing Prairie dog edit 3.jpg, which is recognized as a Commons VP. -- 84.44.254.108 ( talk) 11:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Done
Is there any reason the Featured Picture of the prairie dog was eliminated from this posting? This entry has many pictures, but it makes sense to include the highest-possible quality photos. I realize it does not show the full body, so perhaps it is advisable to leave the current picture in the infobox. But perhaps we can add it to the entry, and consolidate some of the other photos to a gallery? Full Disclosure: I am author of the featured picture. -- Asiir ( talk) 16:59, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
the bit on prarie dogging in the first section absolutely does not belong here Seeasea ( talk) 02:25, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I came here looking for a link on their burrowing and colonizing habits.
I understand that they sometimes burrow in a single colony several square miles in a network.
there is no information at all here, maybe make a section or article that links here on burrows? Seeasea ( talk) 02:28, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
To whoever it concerns: A small act of vandilism on my part was enacted on this article. For a short, no more than 5 minute, period, the conservation status section had that praire dogs could breath fire and release electricity. I am sorry if this false information inconvienienced anyone and have since deleted that part of the entry. In adding this, I meant no harm to any user of this fantastic site and only did this for a satirical paper on the general populace's trust on Wikipedia entries. Be assured that no false information by me or anything related to me exists within the article any more. Sorry about the vandalism as even though I had no intention of misleading anyone, it was still vandilism. Thank you for your time and, hopefully, understanding. 72.77.68.65 ( talk) 12:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
As someone pointed out, the statement "When hiding from predators, prairie dogs use less deep chambers that are usually a meter below the surface. Nursery chambers tend to be deeper, being 2-2 ½ feet below the surface." is contradictory. 2 feet is less than one meter. Could somebody provide reliable data on this? Nazgul02 ( talk) 14:16, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
The citation to the incorrect claim that these pests don't kill horses is misleading. The incorrect claim in the citation is about cattle and not horses. It's wrong twice over. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.228.116.228 ( talk) 21:51, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps an addendum might be made to the alarm call section of the article introducing the latest Slobodchikoff findings:
"New research suggests that the (burrowing) owls don't just gain a free home from the prairie dogs, but they also eavesdrop on the prairie dogs' sophisticated alarm calls, which scientists have described as a rudimentary form of grammar. The owls, less than a foot high, sneak tips about lurking predators from their highly vocal housemates, according to a study in next month’s Ethology."
Sources: http://www.insidescience.org/content/squatting-owls-eavesdrop-prairie-dogs/1535
Of course, it might be advisable for the addendum to wait for the Ethology article, but this talk section migt serve as a reminder... -- Terminally uncool ( talk) 16:08, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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