Pocket or Botta's Gopher
Gophers, those destroyers of lawns and gardens...and the aerators of the soil. Yes they have a greater purpose than twisting your crank! These guys, along with a host of other creatures (such as earthworms) keep the soil turned and aerated. They just create a mess while doing their job!
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This Gopher is stretched about as far as it can stretch, and still keep a hind foot in it's burrow. It is extremely rare to see a Gopher completely out of it's burrow, walking about on the surface. Such a sighting is usually the result of flood, or a predator, driving the Gopher out of the safety of it's burrow.
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