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 are a big reason the man loves living there. Once he learned the neighborhood HOA might exterminate the animals, ...

They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them ...

But prairie dogs are in trouble. Much of their habitat has been lost to agriculture, and the southern part of their range is becoming too dry. Sterling Krank and her colleagues recently analyzed where ...

How human competition with neighborhood prairie dogs became such a pervasive issue in Boulder County and beyond.

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 — ...

Prairie dogs and livestock consume similar forage, raising the question as to how much the existence of prairie dogs on livestock pasture affects livestock production. Despite many studies trying to ...