A gopher pulls an entire plant down by the roots into its tunnels. (Norm Douglas) The notion of gophers as farmers is a beguiling one. Few nonhuman animals have earned the moniker, and they’re ...

Hofstetter added there are a lot of unknowns regarding the tunnels in terms of navigation and where they are located. “There’s a lot of people who don’t know about the tunnels, and the hope is that ...

Since they prefer to live alone, they will fight other gophers who try to enter their tunnels. These systems have several chambers, and a gopher will run through all the tunnels every day or so to ...

The tunnels lie directly below London Underground’s Central Line in the city’s Holborn area. Work to dig them began in secret ...

Once in the basement you will see a room of vending machines (best on the East Bank, I might say – try the granola bars.) Just past it there’ll be a sign for the Gopher Way. This tunnel system, with ...

Pocket gophers, also known as gophers, are often viewed as a pest species. But their extensive tunnel networks are good for soil and help shape healthy ecosystems everywhere gophers are found.

Every meter of tunnel a gopher dug would cost it about a tenth of its daily caloric needs. For a human, that would be like needing to stop to eat a full-size candy bar for each meter dug.

Pocket gophers certainly don’t qualify as card-carrying 4-H members, but the rodents might be farming roots in the open air of their moist, nutrient-rich tunnels.

Tunnels and excavated dirt. You may see gopher tunnels running through your yard, but you’re even more likely to spot the piles of dirt that gophers leave behind when excavating their burrows.

Pocket Gophers May Be the First Non-Human Mammal to ‘Farm’ The rodents don’t plant, of course, but they do tend to roots in their tunnels that they then eat ...

Gophers love being alone, which is why you only find one gopher per tunnel system. However, they may be forced to share their tunnel system with rabbits, toads , and snakes.

Enigmatic creatures, pocket gophers spend nearly their entire lives below ground in sprawling tunnels up to 500 feet long. Although often thought of as pests, they eat only roots and rarely damage ...