gopher

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His Turner Endangered Species Fund, launched in June 1997, has worked to save gopher tortoises, monarch butterflies and leopard frogs, working mainly with private landowners.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

When the New England Patriots signed Mike Vrabel as a young linebacker in 2001, they sent a gopher from the team’s personnel department to scoop him up at the airport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Its two baseball fields were so pockmarked by gopher holes that even walking over them was difficult.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024

If the gopher tortoise goes extinct, as foreseen, the dusky gopher frog is one species that will likely follow.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023

They had been hunting gophers in the dark, and although the four cats were full of gopher meat, they sat in a semi-circle at the back door and mewed piteously for milk.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck