Prairie dogs rely on highly specific alarm calls to survive in exposed grassland ecosystems. Research shows that their vocalizations can encode information about predator type, size, and even human ...

BALTIMORE (WHTM) — A prairie dog village is one of the first things you see when you visit the Baltimore Zoo. They get their name because (1) they live in prairies, and (2) they make a high-pitched ...

Prairie dogs aren’t dogs at all but are actually a species of ground squirrels. They are cousins of the squirrels we find in our backyards. Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog ...

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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 ...

Conservationists are sounding the alarm about the impact of development in Douglas County on wildlife, specifically prairie dogs. While they're often referred to as "pests," the animals play a key ...

Natural communities and ecosystems are often maintained by one or more keystone species within them. A keystone species is a species upon that other species in an ecosystem depend on so much that if ...

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 ...

They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them. The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After ...