Root-farming gophers might be our closest agricultural relatives

Although you’ll probably never see them, you can spot them by the tell-tale mounds of sandy soil dotting a field: pocket gophers. Beneath your feet, the gophers continuously create and remold a labyrinth of winding tunnels hundreds of feet long.


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Source: Phys.org