Common and abundant within its limited range in Texas, Attwater's Pocket Gopher requires habitats with vegetation dominated by grasses, which it feeds on both aboveground and belowground. Built to burrow, Attwater's Pocket Gopher is cylindrically shaped but stouter in the front. Learn more about the Geomys attwateri, more commonly known as an Attwater's Pocket Gopher, in this easy-to-read species overview by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.