In 1980, animal behaviourist Con Slobodikoff began recording the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs at a field site in Arizona. What he expected to find was a simple warning system, something like ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Prairie dogs, those little pups popping in and out of holes on vacant lots and rural rangeland, are talking up a storm. They have different "words" for tall human in yellow ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Prairie dogs, those little pups popping in and out of holes on vacant lots and rural rangeland, are talking up a storm. They have different "words" for tall human in yellow shirt, ...

Slobodchikoff began studying the social behavior of prairie dogs about 20 years ago. He gradually recognized signs that the foot-long, 2-pound rodents, which live in colonies, appeared to have a ...

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 ...

If you heard me describing a highly social mammal with dense settlements and a sophisticated language, an animal that modifies its environment and one that has huge effects on the species around 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 ...