"Prairie dogs have alarm calls for different species of predators," Slobodchikoff says. "We have identified different calls for humans, domestic dogs, red-tailed hawks, coyotes, cats, badgers, weasels ...

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 may seem small and harmless at first. But their communication system is far more complex than it looks. They use specific sounds to warn each other about danger. Every call carries ...

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 ...

Prairie dogs and groundhogs are incredibly similar animals, often so much so that people may think they are different names for the same creature! While that isn’t the case, it’s easy to see how it ...

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 ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America's largest land mammal. But what I didn't expect was for a ...

BISMARCK -- Good neighbors keep their prairie dogs, like any dog, on their side of the property line. In a nutshell, that’s what the U.S. Forest Service is aiming to accomplish with its proposed plan ...