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Botta's Pocket Gopher

Thomomys bottae

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Field Notes

Description:

Dark brown, fat, small eyes and ears. big orange teeth

Habitat:

underground, came up to pull grass into its hole.

Notes:

My step dad was sitting in a camp chair and the gopher opened up a hole right under his chair.
It pulled a whole grass stem right into the ground! and a camp chair

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PublishedJune 26, 2014

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