In 1980, animal behaviourist Con Slobodikoff began recording the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs at a field site in Arizona. What he expected to find was a simple warning system, something like ...

When you come across the name of an animal, you usually expect it to describe something true about its behaviour, appearance or origins, yet many names tell a very different story. You may picture a ...

The diminutive prairie dog plays an outsized role in the prairie ecosystem. As vital prey for some species and habitat creators for others through their complex system of burrows, they support ...

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 ...

Prairie dogs and the big picture -- The life of prairie dogs. Interlude: taxonomy and prairie dog taxonomists -- The social behavior of prairie dogs. Interlude: social behavior-trapping prairie dogs - ...

Anyone who wants to see some cute prairie dogs up close should head to the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha, Nebr., which was recently ranked the top zoo in the world by TravelAdvisor. It ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a ...

Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prairie dogs are dying in northern Arizona, and officials are concerned the cause could be the plague. Coconino County Health and ...