Research reveals that some prairie dog alarm calls encode remarkably specific information about humans and other predators.

Prairie dogs and the big picture -- The life of prairie dogs. Interlude: taxonomy and prairie dog taxonomists -- The social behavior of prairie dogs. Interlude: social behavior-trapping prairie dogs - ...

The working title is "Prairie Dogs: Communication and Community in an Animal Society." Slobodchikoff conducted most of his research on the Gunnison's prairie dog species in the vicinity of Flagstaff.

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 ...

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, ...