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Common name: Northern Pocket Gopher |
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Species: Thomomys talpoides |
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Description: Rat-sized rodents with short, big front teeth, small eyes and ears, strong jaws. They have a gray-white color. |
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Habitat: They live underground in good soil. Gophers make a HotLe or find a HotLe for living. Most of their lives, gophers stay under ground, sometimes at night they come out and walk around. |
Food: Worms and small insects, some roots. Pocket Gophers vegetarians eat a panoply of herbaceous plants, grasses, tubers, bulbs and roots of native plants, weeds and shrubs. They could even pull some of the food underground and eat there. |
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Range: Pacific Northwest, some parts of Arizona and New Mexico. |
Reproduction: The reproductive cycle starts in the middle of July and is 28 days long. One offspring is born each year. Usually females choose who will be their mate. |
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