The kids' favorite animal of the whole trip to South Dakota were the prairie dogs. They named this one Grassy.
Ginger and I suggested Skillet or Pancake. I didn't point out the flattened one a little ways up the road.
This fat bastage was christened Pipsqueak.
Apparently sitting on your ass in the sun is tiring.
My kingdom for a golden eagle right about now.
I'm not sure if these ones got named.
Prairie dogs are apparently a keystone species, they keep mesquite and brushy stuff from taking over the grasslands. I was hoping to see some of the higher on the foodchain associated species like Burrowing Owl or Black-footed Ferret but no such luck, closest I could come was this (I'm guessing Thirteen-lined) ground-squirrel
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