Prairie dogs start barking bloody murder and scramble for their burrows as a hawk glides fast and low over the colony. The emergency broadcast gives the rotund fur balls ample warning. For the raptor, ...

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 ...

The black-tailed prairie dogs at Schönbrunn Zoo have returned to their now renovated enclosure in the Schönbrunn Zoo.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - University of Arizona researchers have uncovered that black-tailed prairie dogs may play a significant role in wildfire prevention. These prairie dogs eat vegetation, create ...

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 ...

Slobodchikoff conducted most of his research on the Gunnison's prairie dog species in the vicinity of Flagstaff. Prairie dogs, considered pests by many ranchers and farmers, were extirpated by ...

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 ...

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 ...