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The 13 pages that link to Prairie dog, each with the reason it gives.

• Keystone speciesBroader topic: Its colonies modify grasslands and provide food or shelter for many associated species.

• BurrowingBroader topic: Its extensive burrow systems provide shelter and modify grassland habitats.

• Ecosystem engineeringBroader topic: Its colonies alter vegetation and soil while providing burrows used by other species.

• SquirrelCompared with: Despite its name, a prairie dog is a squirrel rather than a dog.

• Ground squirrelBroader topic: Prairie dogs show how ground squirrels can form extensive, highly social colonies.

• Tree squirrelCompared with: Its colonial burrow life contrasts sharply with solitary or small-group canopy foraging.

• PrairieRelated: Its colonies alter plant communities and provide habitat for other prairie species.

• Colonial nestingCompared with: Its social colony distinguishes group living from the shared nesting pattern meant here.

• Devils TowerRelated: Prairie dog towns occupy the monument’s grasslands around the rock formation.

• SciurusCompared with: Their colonial burrowing contrasts with the mostly tree-dwelling habits of Sciurus.

• SpermophilusCompared with: They occupy a similar ecological niche but belong to a different ground-squirrel lineage.

• American badgerRelated: Badgers prey on prairie dogs and may hunt near their colonies.

• OctodonCompared with: Their common name and sociality can invite comparison, but they are squirrels, not caviomorphs.