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The name "pocket gopher" comes from their fur-lined cheek pouches which are used for transporting food. They can be turned inside out and have fur on both sides.
The colour of the pocket gopher resembles the colour of the soil in which it lives. They are found throughout north and central America with the largest specimens being found in the south of their range.
Their bodies are adapted to living in burrows. They are stout and have powerful legs with broad five digited feet and enlarged claws, especially at the front. They can move backwards almost as quickly as forwards, a useful trait when living in a burrow. They have small eyes and ears but with large tear glands to wash out dirt. They have large incisors and their mouths can be closed behind them so that they do not get their mouths full of soil. Like all rodents, these teeth never stop growing and they need to gnaw.
They are very good at burrowing - and are considered a pest because of this. Some people put meshing down in their garden and then soil on top to stop them ruining the lawn. Eventually however they will burrow through. Their burrows are long and complex, burrows near the surface are used for foraging whilst deeper ones are for nesting and as latrines. They dig by loosening the soil with their incisors and foreclaws, then pushing it with chest and forefeet to the surface or into empty burrows. The area of a burrow system is marked by numerous mounds where soil has been brought to the surface. During the winter, soil is packed into tunnels through the snow, and snowmelt leaves long "gopher cores" of earth lying on the surface. Pocket gophers usually close the mouths of their burrows, and opening a closed burrow will often bring the burrower hurrying to renew the plug.
Pocket gophers feed primarily on roots and tubers, although they sometimes eat other parts of plants as well. Food is packed into the cheek pouches and carried to underground storage chambers. In some communities where gophers are abundant, they consume an amazing fraction of the underground productivity of plants.
Pocket gophers are generally solitary coming together only to reproduce.
For more information see : Myers, P. 2001. "Geomyidae" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Geomyidae.html.
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Pocket Gophers: Finding Tunnel Systemsby UCCESanDiego6,446 views
Cute little beastie. Rather unfussed by all the attention from man and even dog. Would make a nice pet if you don't grow vegetables.
5micky2 1 month ago 2
Cute animals. Always fond of gophers although they are a bit of a pest in the western states.
Ramiiam 1 month ago 2