The prairie dog's barks, yips and chirping sounds are really a sophisticated form of communication that contains a vocabulary of at least 100 words, researchers claim.

Slobodchikoff, a professor emeritus at North Arizona University, told Erica Johnson, guest host of The Current, that he started studying prairie dog language 30 years ago after scientists reported ...

Prairie dog haters, be warned: Removing the species you consider a pest could ruin delicate lands. North America is home to five prairie dog species, which live in various parts of the Great ...

The long-billed curlew nests in short-grass prairie and incubates eggs on a ground nest. When one hears the prairie dog alarm, she responds by pressing her head, beak and belly close to the ground.

A young black-footed ferret learns to hunt prairie dogs at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center US Fish and Wildlife Service via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) The black-footed ...

A prairie dog eats a bait containing a plague vaccine. Tonie Rocke, USGS. Bubonic plague may seem like a disease that’s been relegated to the history books, but that’s not the case.