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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 ...

To test just how alert the birds were to prairie dog chatter, researchers created a fake predator by strapping a taxidermied badger onto a small remote-controlled vehicle. They sent this badger ...

To test just how alert the birds were to prairie dog chatter, researchers created a fake predator by strapping a taxidermied badger onto a small remote-controlled vehicle. They sent this badger ...

The largest recorded prairie dog town covered some 25,000 square miles. That Texas town was home to perhaps four hundred million prairie dogs. Another prairie dog species, ...

A prairie dog at the American Prairie nature preserve in Montana. — Photo: Roshan Patel/Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute via AP.

Those predators will also snack on grassland nesting birds like the long-billed curlew. To protect themselves, the curlews eavesdrop on the alarms coming from prairie dog colonies, according to ...

INTERIOR, S.D. - Two years after state and federal officials first took steps to control a vast prairie dog colony just south of Badlands National Park, neighboring ranchers are fuming.

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.

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 ...