Show of hands—how many of you have ever stopped at the Greycliff-area prairie dog town on Interstate 90? Anyone? Anyone?

The black-footed ferret is North America's rarest mammal, with only about 300 estimated to survive in the wild at the end of ...

In August, the San Juan Basin Health Department confirmed that a burrow of prairie dogs ridden with plague-positive fleas was responsible for infecting a La Plata County woman with bubonic plague. The ...

Black-tailed prairie dogs eat vegetation, create burrows and clear ground. Do those habits impact the spread of wildfires? Researchers from the University of Arizona are calling for more ...

The Call That Contains a Description 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 ...

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 ...

A program was undertaken to develop zinc phosphide as a replacement for the more hazardous toxicants currently available to control black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). Four field trials ...