Common Name
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Species Name
Cynomys ludovicianus
Status
Decreasing
States
Arizona
Colorado
Kansas
Montana
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Texas
Wyoming
Distribution
Montana south to eastern Nebraska, western Texas, New Mexico, and southeast Arizona.
Notes
Large, chunky ground squirrel with a short tail. Sociable; live in towns w/ many burrows, mostly in shortgrass prairies. Keeps the vegetation surrounding burrow entrances shortly cropped.
Arizona
Was extirpated in AZ, reintroduced to Las Cienegas National Preserve