Prairie dogs are a keystone species that provides disturbance in North American grasslands through grazing, burrowing, and clipping. This behavior shapes the habitat of countless prairie residents, ...

Show of hands—how many of you have ever stopped at the Greycliff-area prairie dog town on Interstate 90? Anyone? Anyone? Show of hands—how many of you have ever stopped at the Greycliff-area prairie ...

“We’ve had prairie dogs at the zoo for the quite a long time now, and they just keep redesigning this exhibit,” Emily Perala of the Lake Superior Zoo explains. Prairie dogs represent an important part ...

If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from burrows and sharp barking, you likely have wandered into a prairie dog town.

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 ...

Prairie dogs will stand upright and watch for any signs of danger, ready to signal to the group if trouble approaches. Prairie dogs aren't dogs at all but are actually a species of ground squirrels.

The black-footed ferret exhibit at American Prairie's National Discovery Center in Lewistown, Montana, just opened to the public on Nov. 14. When I went to Montana in September to visit American ...

At the Lake Superior Zoo you can find community everywhere. However, there’s no community as organized as the prairie dogs. Zoo keeper Jessica Kretsch says, “they’ll have little colonies and they have ...