Utah prairie dog

Description

The fur is multicolor,which consists of black,brown,and dark brown at the tip.Face have dark brown cheeks and whitish tone of chins and mouth.The total body length of typical adult ranges from 30.5 cm to 36.0 cm with 3 cm to 6 cm of tail.Adult prairie dogs weigh about 0.77 kg to 1.41 kg in males,and 0.64 kg to 1.13 kg in females.Utah prairie dogs show sexual dimorphism that males are 27% bigger than female,although the ratio varies by season.In 1952,Durant noted that Utah prairie dogs have larger in every aspect of skull than that of Gunnison's prairie dog.