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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Conservationists are sounding the alarm about the impact of development in Douglas County on wildlife, specifically prairie dogs. While they're often referred to as "pests," the animals play a key ...