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This is the Bison. Also known as a buffalo. This animal is a symbol of the prarie.Native prairie grasses like little bluestem and buffalo grass evolved along with the bison and flourish with the grazing that prompts new growth. The buffalo's sharp hooves turn up the soil. Their wallows provide temporary spring ponds that fill with frogs. Unlike the cattle, bison avoid woody cover like buffaloberry, chokecherry, and plum, allowing this important vegetation to serve as winter cover and nesting areas for other wildlife and birds.

This is a Black Tailed Prarie Dog. THey also live underground. Clark caught one by pouring water into its tunnel. Lewis dug ten feet down into a burrow but still didn't reach the bottom. Lewis and clark killed some of these animlas becasue they have never seen this rare animal before. These Prarie dogs can also be called barking squirrles.Like bison, prairie dogs and their colonies form a biological center of prairie life.



This is a black footed-ferrat.The lives of the black-footed ferrets are tied together with their main prey the black tailed prarie dog.A ferret can eat a prairie dog every three or four days, no small feat as the animals are roughly the same size. The ferrets spend much of their lives in the prairie-dog burrows, using the burrows to hide from hawks and coyotes, and giving birth and raising their young in the tunnels. (From a prairie dog's perspective, the ferret is a very ill-behaved guest.