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

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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, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air. “Prairie ...

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

New research suggests long-billed curlews keep an ear out for warnings from prairie dogs in order to hide from predators and protect their nests ...

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

“Prairie dogs are on the menu for just about every predator you can think of”— golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, foxes, badgers, even large snakes — said Andy Boyce, a research ecologist in Montana at ...

Prairie dogs are often thought of as “environmental engineers,” she said, because they construct extensive burrows and nibble down prairie grass, keeping short-grass ecosystems intact.

Prairie dogs are often thought of as "environmental engineers," she said, because they construct extensive burrows and nibble down prairie grass, keeping short-grass ecosystems intact.