Prairie dogs have been considered a staple for the city of Lubbock, complete with a landmark, Prairie Dog Town, for those to ...

Natural communities and ecosystems are often maintained by one or more keystone species within them. A keystone species is a species upon that other species in an ecosystem depend on so much that if ...

If you heard me describing a highly social mammal with dense settlements and a sophisticated language, an animal that modifies its environment and one that has huge effects on the species around it, ...

Prairie dogs aren’t dogs at all but are actually a species of ground squirrels. They are cousins of the squirrels we find in our backyards. Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog ...

Neighbors in one Colorado community are fed up with a nearby colony of prairie dogs they say are digging their way into their yards. Prairie dogs are a keystone species and, for years, conservation ...

Last fall, I fell in love with prairie dogs on the American Prairie in Montana even though the hype for America’s Great Plains pointed me to bison. As impressive as North America’s largest land mammal ...

Researchers have deployed a new tracker that helps them monitor prairie dogs and track their movements underground. The tracker uses sensors, including accelerometers and magnetometers, and combines ...