Are prairie dogs threatened or endangered these days? – Joseph P., via email Answer: Prairie dogs play a key role in ...

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, sleeping ...

Prairie dogs' sociable nature allows them to form close-knit family groups and work cooperatively to warn of danger through a variety of barks. It's these calls that earned the prairie dog its name — ...

Ecosystem services provided by prairie dogs include recharging groundwater, aerating soil, sequestering carbon, cycling nutrients, spreading seeds, preventing desertification, and creating fire breaks ...

Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat squirrels, mice, and other rodents, prairie dogs are essential to their survival, making up the majority of the ferret diet. These voracious predators ...

Wildlife documentary following Professor Con Slobodchikoff, who believes prairie dogs use a language second only to humans in its complexity. Show more Prairie dogs are America's answer to the ...