UTC Students Help Renovate Prairie Dog Exhibit At Zoo

January 23, 2014 by PDP

The Chattanooga Zoo partnered with students and faculty in the UTC Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and College of Engineering to renovate the Zoo’s existing prairie dog exhibit.

The original prairie dog exhibit, home to five prairie dogs, was built in 1998. This exhibit is approximately 400 square feet in size and contains two chest-high observation windows. UTC Engineering students have redesigned the exhibit to incorporate a children’s viewing tunnel which will allows children to get eye level with their prairie dog counterparts through the creation of a viewing space within the actual exhibit.

What do prairie dogs eat?

January 24, 2023 By PDP

The vast majority of this creature’s diet consists of plants, making them herbivores. They eat mostly grasses, shrubs, roots, and seeds. Though the different species don’t specialize on a specific type of plant, they do each have different preferences. https://defenders.org/wildlife/prairie-dog Black-tailed prairie dogs mainly consume grasses, sedges, forbs (flowering plants), roots and seeds, though they […]

What do prairie dogs eat?

January 24, 2023 By PDP

Prairie dogs are herbivorous (i.e., they eat plants such as grasses and forbs [grass-like flowering plants]). Prairie dogs also occasionally insects that they find above ground. They do not drink because they get all of the water they need from the plants. A review of studies on prairie dog food habits shows variable results. Prairie […]

What do prairie dogs eat?

January 24, 2023 By PDP

When it comes to diet, the prairie dog seems to be on the veg side of things. It practically has no business with flesh as one would assume. It believes in green food; perhaps because it offers more nutrients and is more readily available in its natural environment. Prairie dogs feed on grass, plants, root, […]