For those of you who don't know, prairie dogs are not actually dogs.

你们当中可能有人不知道，草原犬鼠其实不是狗。

The biggest obstacle is the ranchers themselves, whose cattle compete with prairie dogs and bison for grass and space.

最大的障碍是牧场主自己，他们的牛与土拨鼠和野牛争夺草地和空间。

Prairie dogs may be able to tell you about a hawk that's circling overhead right now, but they never show any inclination to describe the one they saw last week.

草原土拨鼠也许能告诉你现在有一只鹰在头顶盘旋，但从未表现出任何意愿去描述上周看到的鹰。

Chipmunks and prairie dogs are kinds of squirrels.

金花鼠和草原犬鼠都属于松鼠类动物。

Prairie dogs chiefly live in the great plains of North America.

草原袋鼠主要分布在北美的大平原上。

Prairie dogs, unlike many ground squirrels, live together in big burrows on the western prairies.

草原犬鼠和许多地松鼠不一样，群居在西部大草原的大地洞中。

Most of these people got sick after having contact with pet prairie dogs that were sick with monkeypox.

这些人大多数在接触患有猴痘的草原宠物狗后发病。

Vast villages of prairie dogs provided tasty meals for hawks, eagles, and the now-endangered black-footed ferret.

草原上遍布的土拨鼠则是鹰、隼和如今已濒危的黑足鼬的美味佳肴。

Sociable prairie dogs like nothing more than a good kiss and a cuddle. Particularly, it seems, when they have an audience.

北美土拨鼠是一种社会性很强的动物，它们喜欢通过亲吻和拥抱传达爱意，尤其是有观众的时候。

Dr Simpson’s work suggests the predators were not above going after small prey, too, just as coyotes will dig for prairie dogs.

辛普森博士的著作表明食肉动物也不是跟在小猎物之后追捕，而是就象山狗挖洞找土拨鼠那样。

The prairie dogs stayed out of school and fought the tax levy because the administration would not add digging and burrowing to the curriculum.

山拨鼠游离在学校之外，对抗税收，因为行政部门未将挖掘和打洞穴列入课程。

Other animals can communicate—the alarm calls of prairie dogs to warn of a nearby predator, say, or the meowing of a hungry cat to tell its owner to put food down.

其他动物也会交流——土拨鼠警觉的叫声是在警告其他伙伴周围有捕食者；饥饿的猫喵喵地叫是告诉它的主人赶紧把食物放下来给它吃。

In the USA, the virus is thought to have been transmitted from African animals to a number of susceptible non-African species (like prairie dogs) with which they were co-housed.

在美国，人们认为该病毒是从非洲动物传给与其混在一起的许多具有易感性的非非洲物种的(像草原犬)。