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Published: 2011-03-11 23:15:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 1676; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 131
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I went on a gopher trapping trip to Milam County in Texas a few weeks back, just to try to get a couple gophers for our natural history museum before they all got gassed, and I had a chance to take some photos of one of the little buggers.They're really interesting (at least as far as rodents go
) for a few reasons. As you can see here, their forelimbs are really well adapted for a digging lifestyle. Huge claws and muscley arms. They also have really small ears to prevent drag while underground. The other cool thing about them is that their upper lips actually close behind their incisors as a way to prevent them from eating dirt while they dig.
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Looks like a kind of mole rat to me. Searching for 'gopher' just found that it refers to any rodent living partly under ground. Do you know what this animal really is? We don't have them here in Germany 
Somehow sad they get killed in masses, they look very cute
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Google "Geomys attwateri." That's the scientific name for these guys. The common name is Attwater's Pocket Gopher, but if you refer to it as Geomys to someone, you'll look really smart.
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Dah, yes I tend to jump over reading the title and directly to the description. Thanks for explaining
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