Habitat


 * Ords Kangaroo Rats Habitat**

They live in sandy areas,in tunnels,near a grassy area. They mostly live near grassy areas in a tunnel under the ground so that they can protect themselves from danger. They always live with in a tunnel system. The reason they always live near grass is because they eat grass. That is some places they live.

They also live in the southern parts of Denver. They live in diffrent areas down in the south. They rarely live in the northern parts of Denver. There are some cousins of the Ords Kangaroo Rats in diffrent parts of America but the Ord's Kangaroo Rats live in Denver the most. Like I said they mostly live in the southern parts of Denver how they know that is because people look for them and they mostly find them in the southern parts of Denver.

They don't live in other states or countries. The reason they don't live in other states or countries because they don't have sand,grass,grasshopers,moths,or they don't have any cool areas. They also live in wide areas so that they can run from snakes, and other things that will eat them. The also try to live in areas were there food sources are so that they don't have to travel far far far away from there home.I f they end up going out of the wide area of land that they live in they sometimes turn around and go back to their home.

They sometimes like to live in wast lands were their is lots of hard packed soil. They rarely live in homes of people, inless they people took one of them into their home to be a pet. If people have found an injured Kangaroo rat the sometimes help to feed it and help it survive without being in the wild. Some people if one or two mabe three get into their house and they get spoted the people will try to kill them because they don't want rats in their home. So they will go to any lenth to kill them or get them out of their hose the people will kick at it stomp at it throw stuff at it they will even go to the store and get rat poison or mouse traps to get them out of their house.

Some people or other animals will destroy their under ground home by kicking in the sand, throwing rocks down in the tunnel to block them form coming up out of the gronud, the may even build over them or even stuff sticks down their to see if anything lives there.Some animals will try to get them to feed on by diging in their home to get them, or even snakes will go down into the tunnel to trap them to eat them for a snack or just to have shellter to live in.

By:Shalyn