Here comes a tall guy in a blue shirt. "In a lab, we showed some prairie dogs the same human wearing the same clothes, and we showed them the same dog," Slobodchikoff says. "Not surprisingly, all of ...

Prairie dog image. Photo by Joerg Hartmann via Pexels. Prairie dogs are easy to underestimate because their alarm calls sound, to human ears, like small sharp barks. One animal sees danger, calls, and ...

If you heard me describing a highly social mammal with dense settlements and a sophisticated language, an animal that modifies its environment and one that has huge effects on the species around it, ...

As ornithologists studying the lives of grassland birds, our goal is to understand why so many species are quickly declining. But to do so, we need to look to one of their neighbors: the black-tailed ...

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 ...

Colorado State University researchers have identified priority areas for the conservation of the black-tailed prairie dog in the United States, extending from Montana to Texas and New Mexico to ...