As we cross into another pasture, the tall grass is replaced by a short green carpet pockmarked with prairie dog holes.

Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by ... members even greet one another with a prairie dog kiss or nuzzle. Young pups are very playful ...

ST. LOUIS — Construction is underway at the Henry A. Jubel Foundation Destination Discovery within the Saint Louis Zoo. It's ...

Federal rules will now allow black-footed ferret colonies on private and tribal lands but won't hold the landowners liable if ...

Israel also extensively bombed the smuggling tunnels in Rafah. For as long as they worked in the smuggling tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip, Samir and his brother Yussef suspected they might one day ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Social Behavior of Prairie Dogs ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 4 (October 1959), p. 128 doi:10.1038 ...

The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...

Meyer saved about a fifth of that prairie dog colony from extermination by bringing them to her land. "It was a battle to get these prairie dogs up here," Meyer said. "This was the only place we ...

So when his colleague, Kurt Niel, asked him to join a nearby erdstall tunnel mapping expedition last year, Edlinger readily agreed. Erdstall tunnels are mysterious underground passageways ...

DESCRIPTION: The black-tailed prairie dog is a daytime-active, medium-sized rodent, ranging in length from 12 to 15 inches, including a three- to four-inch tail. Its weight ranges from 1.5 to three ...