gopher
Example Sentences
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One example of how the partnership can succeed, Tenny said, is the gopher tortoise.
From Seattle Times
Every so often, the owl, which first appeared in November, takes off to hunt for a rat or a gopher under the night sky.
From New York Times
One of them—a tapeworm Gardner fished out of a camas pocket gopher—turned out to be a species new to science.
From Scientific American
People took turns watching over the drip irrigation system, clearing out weeds and making sure gophers didn’t gobble up anything.
From Los Angeles Times
More than 360 kinds of animals have been found in occupied or abandoned burrows; the 60 vertebrate species include dusky gopher frogs,eastern indigo snakes and burrowing owls.
From Seattle Times
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