If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from ...

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, ...

To test just how alert the birds were to prairie dog chatter, researchers created a fake predator by strapping a taxidermied badger onto a small remote-controlled vehicle. They se ...

A Scottish zoo is celebrating a summer baby boom following the arrival of several new residents. Five Sisters Zoo in West ...

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.

Prairie Dog and Feline Siblings’ Precious Cuddles Are Melting Hearts Everywhere originally appeared on PetHelpful. Everyone ...

Did that prairie dog just call you fat? Quite possibly. On The Current Friday, biologist Con Slobodchikoff described how he learned to understand what prairie dogs are saying to one another and ...

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 ...

A pet meerkat adorably greeted a prairie dog during a walk in the park. Footage shows the three-month-old exotic pet named ...

June 29, 2005 -- -- About 300 prairie dogs are on the move from Santa Fe, N.M., to the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, near Socorro. A city ordinance in Santa Fe requires that prairie dogs be ...

The prairie dogs at Red Bud Park are currently being treated for mange. The outbreak was discovered after a sick prairie dog, ...