At the Lake Superior Zoo you can find community everywhere. However, there’s no community as organized as the prairie dogs. Zoo keeper Jessica Kretsch says, “they’ll have little colonies and they have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prairie Dog Town is a state park near I-90 inside of Big Timber. The park works as a wildlife center for the prairie dog, and ...

The latest effort to relocate a prairie dog colony from a Fort Collins neighborhood is about wrapped up. This time, organizers of the rodent rescue hope animals moved to Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural ...

Biologists with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently partnered to reintroduce black-tailed prairie dogs to Canton Wildlife Management Area in ...

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, ...

“We’ve had prairie dogs at the zoo for the quite a long time now, and they just keep redesigning this exhibit,” Emily Perala of the Lake Superior Zoo explains. Prairie dogs represent an important part ...