Pocket gophers are known for living solitary, underground lives, eating roots in North and Central American grasslands. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on July 11 have found ...

Pocket gophers are known for living solitary, underground lives, eating roots in North and Central American grasslands. Now, researchers have found that pocket gophers keep up with the high energy ...

Pocket gophers certainly don’t qualify as card-carrying 4-H members, but the rodents might be farming roots in the open air of their moist, nutrient-rich tunnels. The gophers subsist mostly on roots ...

They thus grow more roots which extend back into the tunnel again, presenting a new "crop" for the gophers to harvest. In order to test the latter theory, Prof. Jack Putz and zoologist Veronica Selden ...

The gophers spend most of their time underground and only venture to the outside world to forage for food or mate. Veronica Selden/UF Beneath North and Central American grasslands, pocket gophers dig ...