Great work! Now read and sing along with the gopher.
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About gophers...
Gophers are constant travelers, even though they rarely leave their home territory. Gophers spend most of their time below ground digging complicated tunnel systems to use as homes. These tunnels, with multiple entrance holes on the ground surface, protect gophers from predators and help them travel safely in search of their favorite foods.
Gophers are strictly vegetarians. They can eat and stash enormous amounts of food. Farmers and gardeners consider gophers to be pests, not only because they leave holes in the ground, but because they eat root vegetables and tubers, and will munch on nearly any plant or shrub. What they don’t eat, they stash. Gophers pack their cheek pouches to carry food back to their tunnels.
Gophers are solitary, territorial animals, so you'll rarely find two gophers in the same tunnel. One adult male gopher may control a territory of up to 2,000 square feet, about the same size as an average American family’s house.
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Meet the gopher...
"I ain’t nothing but a go-pher
Travellin’ all the time I ain’t nothing but a go-pher Travellin’ all the time Well, if you don’t like tunnels then you ain't no friend of mine So they said you were a gardener Well, you are just my kind Yeah they said you were a gardener Then your just my kind But, if you don’t like tunnels then you ain't no friend of mine I scurry off with all your veggies In those pouchy cheeks of mine I scurry off with all your veggies In those pouchy cheeks of mine But, if you don’t like tunnels then you ain't no friend of mine I ain’t nothing but a go-pher Travellin’ all the time I ain’t nothing but a go-pher Travellin’ all the time Well, if you don’t like tunnels then you ain't no friend of mine! Well if you don't like tunnels then you ain't no friend of mine!"
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