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The prairie dog is a small burrowing rodent once symbolic of the Old West. Estimates once placed the Texas population in the billions. Prairie dogs were named for their quick sharp barking and wagging tails. A vegetarian mammal related to the squirrel and ground hog, it lives in craftily built L-shaped burrows, 15 to 20 feet or more long, seldom connected with others in its "town." Declared pests to agriculture and range, a town was established in March 1964 to preserve a remnant of a vanishing species.
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