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Young Prairie Dog, Utah, 1998

"Veteran researcher John Hoogland examines a young Utah male [prairie dog] at Bryce Canyon National Park. Hoogland dyes his subjects for identification. With 25 years in the field, the biologist was the first to document infanticide and cannibalism among prairie dogs."

—From "The Vanishing Prairie Dog," April 1998, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Raymond Gehman