A pet meerkat adorably greeted a prairie dog during a walk in the park. Footage shows the three-month-old exotic pet named ...

New research says long-billed curlews listen to alarm barks from prairie dog colonies to protect themselves from predators.

Prairie dogs are chatty creatures. The animals have a variety of calls to alert each other to the presence of predators, each ...

Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by many mounds of packed earth at their surface entrances. Burrows have defined nurseries, ...

With distinct alarm calls and yips, black-tailed prairie dogs are a highly social and communicative icon of the Great Plains. A new study published today in Animal Behaviour suggests other species may ...

Good neighbors keep their prairie dogs, like any dog, on their side of the property line. In a nutshell, that’s what the U.S. Forest Service is aiming to accomplish with its proposed plan to ...

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