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 ...

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 ...

People who “massacre” prairie dogs in Colorado should have to pick up the lead-riddled carcasses, says a group calling for ...

The collective stare of environmental activists penetrated the pulpit in the Longmont City Council chambers on Nov. 12, 2024. After a barrage of statements from the public calling for the city to put ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARKER, Colorado (KCNC) — 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, ...

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 ...

DENVER (CN) — A divided 10th Circuit on Monday reversed a lower court’s approval of a Thunder Basin National Grassland management plan that removed protections for the black-tailed prairie dogs needed ...

A long-billed curlew flies over the Great Plains. New research suggests the birds react to danger more quickly when they hear prairie dog alarm calls. Andy Boyce, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...