Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming
1997
Raymond Gehman

A brood of young prairie dogs surrounds its watchful mother, who is perhaps on the lookout for predators such as hawks, coyotes, and dogs. Humans are another formidable predator, particularly ranchers, who have dubbed these creatures prairie rats and see them as competitors for the grass the ranchers' cattle graze on.

' ???From "The Vanishing Prairie Dog," April 1998, National Geographic magazine

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Vanishing Prairie Dog," April 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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