Gopher
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Animal kingdom
- Gopher (animal) A gopher is the common name for any of several small burrowing rodents endemic to North America, including the pocket gopher , also called true gophers, and the ground squirrel (family Sciuridae), including Richardson's ground squirrel, including:
- Pocket gophers The pocket gophers are burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae. These are the "true" gophers, though several ground squirrels of the family Sciuridae are often called gophers as well. The name "pocket gopher" on its own may be used to refer to any of a number of subspecies of the family (family Geomyidae), about 40 species distributed from North America to Colombia
- Several ground squirrels The ground squirrels are the members of the Sciuridae most closely related to the genus Marmota. They make up the tribe Marmotini in the large and mainly terrestrial squirrel subfamily Xerinae, and containing six living genera. Well-known members of this largely Holarctic group are the marmots , the susliks (Spermophilus), and the prairie dogs ( (tribe Marmotini) of North America, particularly those formerly classified as Spermophilus
- Gopher tortoise Gopherus is a genus of tortoises commonly referred to as gopher tortoises. The gopher tortoise is grouped with land tortoises that originated 60 million years ago, in North America. A genetic study has shown that their closest relatives are in the Asian genus Manouria. The gopher tortoises live in the southern United States from California's (genus Gopherus), distributed in North America
Other uses
- Minnesota Nearly sixty percent of Minnesota's residents live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area known as the "Twin Cities", the center of transportation, business and industry, education and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture;, the "Gopher State"
- Minnesota Golden Gophers The Minnesota Golden Gophers are the college sports team for the University of Minnesota. The university fields both men's and women's teams in basketball, cross country, gymnastics, golf, ice hockey, swimming, tennis, and track and field. Men's-specific sports include baseball, football, and wrestling. Women's-specific sports include rowing,, University of Minnesota sports teams
- Gopher (protocol) The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. Software using this protocol was a predecessor of the World Wide Web. The protocol offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on information stored on it. Its, for the distributed hypertext protocol. Named in honor of, and developed at, the University of Minnesota
- Gopher (train), a passenger train operated by Great Northern Railway
- Gophers! Gophers! was a Channel 4 children's programme about a family of American gophers who move into a new neighbourhood, called Sycamore Heights, living next door to a family of uptight but well-intentioned rabbits, The Burrows, a British children's television programme
- Gopher wood Gopher wood or gopherwood is a term used once in the Bible, for the substance from which Noah's ark was built. Gen 6:14 states that Noah was to build the Ark of גפר, gofer, more commonly gopher wood, a word not otherwise known in the Bible or in Hebrew, of unclear meaning, is mentioned in the Bible as the building material for Noah's ark
- Gofer The term originated in North America, with the phrase dogsbody being a similar British term, and Daniel Perez an American military one. While often regarded by employers as a menial position, many gofers view the job not only as an achievable position (similar to "working in the mailroom") for "starting at the bottom" of an, an errand-runner
- The SA-13 "Gopher", or 9K35 Strela-10 The 9K35 Strela-10 is a highly mobile, visually-aimed, optical/infra-red guided, low-altitude, short-range surface to air missile system. "9K35" is its GRAU designation; its NATO reporting name is SA-13 "Gopher", a Soviet surface to air missile system
- Gopher Gang, early 20th-century New York
- A nickname for Burl Smith, a character on The Love Boat The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24, 1977 until May 24, 1986. The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain, who encourages his customers to find romance. It was part of ABC's Saturday night "one-two punch"[citation needed] along with.
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