It must be my day for animals. As I have mentioned, I do not fancy myself as a "wildlife" photographer. But I do take a shot when I get the chance. This fat little guy was just sitting there and didn't do more than blink for several minutes. He is an Arizona Black-Tailed Prairie Dog or Cynomys ludovicianus. There are five species of prairie dogs in the United States and they have mostly been considered to be pests, some to the point of almost extinction. Wikipedia reports that a black-tailed prairie dog town in Texas was reported to cover 25,000 square miles and had 400 million individuals. You can probably guess that the animals that I am likely to photograph are fairly common.
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