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↠ Talking about hunt... check out the incredible story of the sperm whales that learned to outwit their human predators:    • How Sperm Whales Learned to Outsmart their...   Prairie dogs live in the grasslands of North America, where they’re a keystone species. Despite their name, they aren’t really dogs, but a kind of ground squirrel. Over the last 200 years, hunting has decimated the prairie dog population from around 5 billion to just 2% of that number. And now they’re facing another threat: plague. Is there any way to save them from this double danger? 📺 Check out our conservation playlist to see more incredible wildlife:    • Playlist   🔔 Subscribe for loads more stories: https://www.youtube.com/c/TerraMaterO... Thanks for watching, and see you next time! #terramatters #prairiedogs 📖 Scientific sources: Terrestrial vertebrate communities at black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/G... [accessed 16 Dec, 2021] Plague - Ecology & Transmission Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD), August 6, 2021 https://www.cdc.gov/plague/index.html Plague - Maps and Statistics, Plague in the United States Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD), May 27, 2021 https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index... Plague: Past, Present, and Future PLoS Medicine 5(1):e3, DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050003, SourcePubMed, February 2008 https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... Evidence for the involvement of an alternate rodent host in the dynamics of introduced plague in prairie dogs Journal of Animal Ecology, 4 June 2009 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wil... Population dynamics of reintroduced Gunnison's Prairie dogs in the southern portion of their range The Journal of Wildlife Management, 10 March 2014 https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.... 📷 Footage sources: TC 00:59 Josiah Gregg_Commerce of the Prairies_1855.jpeg https://www.kshs.org/p/historical-enc... TC 01:02 first published photograph of prairie dog town_Allen Wallihan_1893.jpeg http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/3129 all other photographs: Getty Images