Look at it go! Last year researchers found this southeastern pocket gopher in a trap set during a snake survey at Ecofina Creek Wildlife Management Area in northwest Florida. Pocket gophers are beautifully adapted for life underground, and our video shows how efficient they are at digging shallow tunnels. These tunnels can extend for 500 feet or more, although 145 feet is the norm. Pocket gophers chew and dig their way through compacted soil and roots with the help of large, incisor teeth and lo

Spring cleaning, gopher style! Mazama pocket gophers are fossorial, meaning they are adapted to digging and live underground most of the time. These pocket gophers could fit in your pocket, but that's not where they get their name (or belong). Pocket gophers have fur-lined cheek pouches or "pockets" for transporting roots, tubers and other vegetation. Four subspecies of the Mazama pocket gopher, including this one, are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and are endemic to the