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, sleeping ...

When plague struck black-tailed prairie dogs in the Thunder Basin National Grassland in Wyoming in 2017, a huge die-off followed. It spelled disaster for the burrowing rodents. But for researchers ...

Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog towns across the dry grasslands of North America. They may be adorable, but these little mammals are fierce fighters with Why Prairie Dogs ...

Picture the open grasslands of North America, alive with the chatter of prairie dogs—creatures so unassuming, yet so essential, that their very presence can mean the difference between a ...

Prairie dog towns, often mistaken for simple clusters of burrowing rodents, are in fact bustling underground cities teeming with life, drama, and survival. These intricate networks of tunnels and ...

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 ...

Boulder County has begun removing prairie dogs at the Heil Valley Ranch hiking area and sending them to a facility where many will be eaten alive by ferrets, prompting outrage from local residents ...

After a barrage of statements from the public calling for the city to put a halt on exterminating prairie dogs at Dry Creek Park, located off Grandview Meadows Drive, it seemed for a moment that their ...

Ensuring a vital population of black-tailed prairie dogs is key to the survival of the federally protected black-footed ferret, which the Fish and Wildlife Service has reintroduced into Wyoming.

The city of Fort Collins plans to reduce a prairie dog colony that has outgrown its home on a city natural area this fall. The colony in and around The Coterie Natural Area near Timberline and ...

According to a national group called NatureServe that looks out for America's critters, a century ago there were 95,000 Utah prairie dogs burrowed into the counties in southwestern Utah.

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