"In a lab, we showed some prairie dogs the same human wearing the same clothes, and we showed them the same dog," Slobodchikoff says. "Not surprisingly, all of them had words for human and dog. But ...

“The prairie dog is usually labeled a couple of different ways: either as a pest or a keystone species,” says Destin Harrell, wildlife biologist with the Bureau of Land Management’s Cody Field Office.

Prairie dogs are amazing beings. These social rodents are family-living animals who also have evolved an amazing and complex vocal repertoire. A recent essay by Ferris Jabr in the New York Times ...

Prairie dogs and groundhogs are incredibly similar animals, often so much so that people may think they are different names for the same creature! While that isn’t the case, it’s easy to see how it ...

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September morning, she’d waddled innocently outside for a breakfast of mini marshmallows ...

The collective stare of environmental activists penetrated the pulpit in the Longmont City Council chambers on Nov. 12, 2024. After a barrage of statements from the public calling for the city to put ...

Colorado State University researchers have identified priority areas for the conservation of the black-tailed prairie dog in the United States, extending from Montana to Texas and New Mexico to ...