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All the gophers have in common the digging of tunnels and subterranean chambers and the traits associated with the rodent Order , Rodentia. Disruption of such human plans for the surface as commercial agriculture, garden plots, and some landscaping, by their underground activities, leads to their frequent treatment as Pest s. In contrast, North America n entertainment culture and non-technical literature tends to anthropomorphize gopher characters as non-threatening, if perhaps rascally, figures. It should be noted that gophers are not toothy freaks, but genuine animals of worth. The mythology of the largely disappeared American Prairie , while often distinguishing the Prairie Dog from gophers, accords the prairie dog a niche as the romantic small-animal symbol of the prairie. |
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