They also feature listening posts near exits, so animals can safely keep tabs on the movements of predators outside. Prairie dogs spend a lot of time building and rebuilding these dwellings.

Prairie dogs collaborate on collecting food, groom each other, and are often observed affectionately hugging and playing. They also have what is believed by many to be the most sophisticated language ...

The animals were taken from a home on Ashton Street after the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office alerted county officials that ...

This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat ...

Drastic die-offs spell big trouble not only for the prairie dogs, but also for the wide variety of animals that depend on them as a critical food source, including eagles, hawks, falcons, badgers, ...

As a pet prairie dog, he’s part of a growing number of examples of this wild animal being kept in domestic activity that include things like raccoons, hyenas, and other exotic species.

The animals were in three separate stockings taped ... that he’d been harboring two Asian small-clawed otters and a prairie dog, which he had stuffed in three separate socks and taped to his ...

A group of Longmont residents are upset over changes coming to a local park and the euthanasia efforts of prairie dogs who ...

It's no secret that development can impact local wildlife. That reality has been put on display in recent months during an ...

When Laura first decided to have a prairie dog as a pet, she didn't realize how charming and cuddly he'd be. Beans proved almost immediately that he preferred sleeping with the comforts of any other ...