The prairie dogs at Red Bud Park are currently being treated for mange. The outbreak was discovered after a sick prairie dog, ...

A pet meerkat adorably greeted a prairie dog during a walk in the park. Footage shows the three-month-old exotic pet named ...

Though black-tailed prairie dogs have a long-standing reputation as pests, their ingenious tunnel systems and industrious prairie pruning make them one of the West’s primary ecosystem engineers.

If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from ...

Prairie dogs, said Kinka, are the “unsung heroes of a prairie ecosystem,” important to all the other species American Prairie is trying to foster. And as researchers have found , the woody plants that ...

Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with ...

Prairie dogs are fascinating sentient rodents. They’re highly intelligent, deeply emotional, and have evolved complex patterns of social organization and social communication that have many ...

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, ...

Viewing prairie dogs as disposable things is unscientific, inhumane, and ecologically and ethically indefensible. Intentionally harming them should be shelved. ...

As a pet prairie dog, he’s part of a growing number of examples of this wild animal being kept in domestic activity that include things like raccoons, hyenas, and other exotic species.