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The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, also known as the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum, [1] located in Torrington, Alberta, features 77 stuffed gophers (Richardson's ground squirrels) posed to resemble townspeople in 44 intricately designed dioramas. [2] [3] [4] Roughly 7–10,000 people visit the museum every year. While it is open primarily ...
Richardson's ground squirrel (Urocitellus richardsonii), also known as the dakrat or flickertail, is a North American ground squirrel in the genus Urocitellus.Like a number of other ground squirrels, they are sometimes called prairie dogs or gophers, though the latter name belongs more strictly to the pocket gophers of family Geomyidae, and the former to members of the genus Cynomys.
World Famous Gopher Hole Museum is a 2015 Canadian short documentary film directed by Chelsea McMullan and Douglas Nayler. [1] The film centres on the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum in Torrington, Alberta, [2] a museum in which stuffed gophers are posed in various anthropomorphic situations.
Gopher client functionality was quickly duplicated by the early Mosaic web browser, which subsumed its protocol. Gopher has a more rigid structure than the free-form HyperText Markup Language of the Web. Every Gopher document has a defined format and type, and the typical user navigates through a single server-defined menu system to get to a ...
The thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus), also known as the striped gopher, leopard ground squirrel, and squinny (formerly known as the leopard-spermophile in the age of Audubon), is a ground squirrel that is widely distributed over grasslands and prairies of North America.
Not from the actual human body, of course, but from the anatomical diagrams that purported to represent it. Goss was the esteemed editor of the 25th edition of the seminal classic Gray’s Anatomy . Internationally lauded as the authority on all things anatomical, Gray’s Anatomy had been considered essential for any would-be physician to own ...
Located in southern Washington state, Mount St. Helens is notorious for its eruption on May 18, 1980. The eruption of stratovolcano led to earthquakes and a massive landslide. University ...
These are the "true" gophers, but several ground squirrels in the distantly related family Sciuridae are often called "gophers", as well. The origin of the word "gopher" is uncertain; the French gaufre , meaning waffle , has been suggested, on account of the gopher tunnels resembling the honeycomb -like pattern of holes in a waffle; [ 5 ...