Prairie dogs aren’t dogs at all but are actually a species of ground squirrels. They are cousins of the squirrels we find in our backyards. Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog ...

Natural communities and ecosystems are often maintained by one or more keystone species within them. A keystone species is a species upon that other species in an ecosystem depend on so much that if ...

The city of Fort Collins plans to reduce a prairie dog colony that has outgrown its home on a city natural area this fall. The colony in and around The Coterie Natural Area near Timberline and ...

Neighbors in one Colorado community are fed up with a nearby colony of prairie dogs they say are digging their way into their yards. Prairie dogs are a keystone species and, for years, conservation ...

Last fall, I fell in love with prairie dogs on the American Prairie in Montana even though the hype for America’s Great ...

A five-hour, 350-mile journey from the West Texas town of Canyon to Fort Worth brought something good to the city-owned nature center. About 100 black-tailed prairie dogs are now burrowing their way ...

Slobodchikoff began studying the social behavior of prairie dogs about 20 years ago. He gradually recognized signs that the foot-long, 2-pound rodents, which live in colonies, appeared to have a ...

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