A southeastern pocket gopher finds a place to dump soil from its ongoing excavation. Digging is so energy intensive, the roots gophers find along the way don’t provide enough food. But by ...
Scientists wanted to know what would happen if pocket gophers, known as "ecosystem engineers" for their outsize effects on habitats, were given a chance to work in fenced-off plots of land.
A pocket gopher is seen in its home on a meadow in the Butte Camp area on the southern side of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state. Gophers were taken to the northern side, which had ...