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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by the Smithsonian in June 2024 shows a prairie dog at the American Prairie nature preserve in Montana.

In 1980, animal behaviourist Con Slobodikoff began recording the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs at a field site in Arizona. What he expected to find was a simple warning system, something like ...

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 ...

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 are a keystone species that provides disturbance in North American grasslands through grazing, burrowing, and clipping. This behavior shapes the habitat of countless prairie residents, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have deployed a new tracker that helps them monitor prairie dogs and track their movements underground. The tracker uses sensors, ...

Prairie dogs are fascinating sentient rodents. They’re highly intelligent, deeply emotional, and have evolved complex patterns of social organization and social communication that have many components ...

Soil nutrients support plants, and the animals who consume plants return these nutrients to the soil, creating a nutrient cycle. In a new study published in Ecology, scientists from the Smithsonian's ...

A once-lost prairie dog is now taking the spotlight at Abilene Prairie Dogs baseball games, thanks to a new partnership with the Big Country Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Wilson Wahoo, a prairie dog ...

LONGMONT, Colo. — A Longmont man is fighting to save his animal neighbors as he's about a three minute walk from one of the prairie dog colonies in his town. Jaime Fraina was one of the volunteers who ...

Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air. "Prairie dogs are on the ...