{"id":21292,"date":"2024-08-26T20:54:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/?page_id=21292"},"modified":"2026-10-03T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:33:28","slug":"prairie-dog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/en\/animals\/prairie-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Prairie Dog: Characteristics, Lifestyle, and Reproduction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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rairie dogs can reach 40 cm in length and 1 to 3 lb in weight. They have cinnamon-colored fur, white bellies and black tail tips. <\/p>\n

Prairie dogs are \u201cdiurnal\u201d animals, meaning they are active during the day. They’ll start their day digging and eating. The rest of the day, they’ll be grooming, dust-bathing or working in their burrows. <\/p>\n

They feed mainly on plants (grasses and roots), but may also eat insects on occasion. Like most animals, they moult twice a year (summer and winter coats). <\/p>\n

During winter, prairie dogs will spend much more time underground, living on the fat accumulated during the warm season, although they will occasionally come out to eat a few roots.<\/p>\n

The breeding season takes place in spring (March to mid-April), the young will be born at the end of May\/beginning of June and will remain in their burrow for several weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet the prairie dog: a diurnal rodent with a cinnamon-colored coat that lives in burrows and feeds on grasses and roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":15167,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_kiss_seo_title":"","_kiss_seo_excerpt":""},"class_list":["post-21292","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21292"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33053,"href":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21292\/revisions\/33053"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parcomega.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}