They also feature listening posts near exits, so animals can safely keep tabs on the movements of predators outside. Prairie dogs spend a lot of time building and rebuilding these dwellings.

Populations need viable prairie dog towns to survive, but they also face threats from predators such as golden eagles, owls, and coyotes. Reintroduced animals lack some survival skills so their ...

We’ve come here for the flowers. Five adults and a small child — all prairie-dwellers, all happy to be out of the car and moving through knee-high grasses. Blossoms of yarrow, bergamot ...

Even though prairie dogs are a keystone species across the West with shrinking population numbers, they are as-yet not federally protected.

The Paws & Prairie Animal Clinic in Wadena is transitioning to a house call-based practice and is expected to be full-time ...