They also feature listening posts near exits, so animals can safely keep tabs on the movements of predators outside. Prairie dogs spend a lot of time building and rebuilding these dwellings.

This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat ...

Drastic die-offs spell big trouble not only for the prairie dogs, but also for the wide variety of animals that depend on them as a critical food source, including eagles, hawks, falcons, badgers, ...

Prairie dogs collaborate on collecting food, groom each other, and are often observed affectionately hugging and playing. They also have what is believed by many to be the most sophisticated language ...

Twelve prairie dog pups are now on display at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, officials announced Friday.Pups are born blind and hairless and do not make an appearance outside of the burrow until they ...

ABILENE, Texas — Many people who go to Red Bud Park have come to know and love the prairie ... from this type of Mange." Terry Rose is a resident in Abilene who walks his dog through Red Bud ...

Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 78-88 (11 pages) Abstract: The Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens), a federally listed threatened species, causes damage to agricultural ...