Gophers spend more than 90% of their time underground engaged in sleeping, eating, and excavating tunnels and chambers within extensive burrow systems. Digging is accomplished using their robust ...

For example, gophers live the majority of their life underground, in a series of complicated tunnels and burrows. Groundhogs prefer to live above ground unless they are sleeping or facing ...

Gopher tortoises have shovel-like front legs and strong, thick back legs to help them dig intricate burrows, which they can enter and exit easily thanks to their low-profile shells. When these ...

Dusky gopher frogs spend most of their lives underground, in burrows created by gopher tortoises — hence their name — and other animals. In the winter they migrate to temporary ponds to breed, and ...

74, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 517-536 (20 pages) Five new species of Aphodius (dyspistus, tanytarsus, hubbelli, platypleurus, and pholetus), collected in the burrows of pocket gophers (Geomys pinetus ...

invicta. Solenopsis invicta is also a grave threat to other native species in these reserves, including the many animals that obligately live inside gopher tortoise burrows. /// La especia tortuga ...

Mike Terrell with Palm Beach Zoo said that gopher tortoises will burrow underground during the cold temperatures. “So, with these guys, when temperatures get down to the 60s and below ...