where they live

 Black Tailed Prairie Dogs live in grasslands in North America.Black-tailed prairie dogs are native to grassland habitats  . They in habitat shortgrass prairie, mixed-grass prairie, sagebrush steppe, and desert grassland. Habitat preferences for the black-tailed prairie dog are influenced by vegetative cover type, slope, soil type, and amount of rainfall.

                                climate

 Like most prairie dogs, the black-tailed eat Small-grass prairie habitats and doesn't go to any environments with  visibility, for example heavy brush and large grass areas. RANGE: The black-tailed prairie dog is found in isolated populations from Central Texas to just north of the Canada border.

                                   adaptations

zoo keepers  will dig burrows close together to form colonies for the black tailed prairie dogs.

                                             diet

 leafy vegetation make up 98 percent of the diet for black-tailed prairie dogs. They usally eat grasshoppers, cutworms, bugs, berries, fruits and veggies. their herbivorous diet provides all of the moisture content that they need. black tail prairie dogs don't need to drink water.

                                         space

Black-tailed prairie dogs primarily inhabit dry, flat slopes, open grasslands  shrub cover) with low vegetation throughout the great plains. Black-tailed prairie dogs will only colonize tallgrass prairie when it has been heavily grazed or mowed.