Prairie Dog Mating
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If one prairie dog dies out of the pair, will the other one find another mate?
Prairie dog's are in smaller family groups. A family group or coterie is made up of a male, one to four females and their young. So a prairie dog does not have only one mate. So yes, they have other if one dies.
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Biology Help - Which one of the following is an example of genetic drift?
a. rats on one side of the mountain breed with rats on the other side of the mountain
b. a fire kills half ot the population of prairie dogs in a forest
c. a mutation in gene causes a brown rabbit to turn black
d. plant pollen is transferred to a flower 5 miles away on the leg of a bee
e. a sterile mule is produced when a donkey and a horse mate
(b) is correct. That's an example of a population bottleneck, which is a form of genetic drift.
