The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...

A retired professor told a Wyoming legislative committee Thursday that shooting prairie dogs is “psychopathic.” That raised ...

Prairie dogs: Keystone species of the grasslands The depletion of grasslands is attributed to the detrimental farming practices of the late 1800s, and as grasslands have suffered, so has the ...

Although Jennifer Melton, the attorney for the prairie dog advocates, had to spend much of her time defending why the case should be before the high court, she tried to refocus on the animals. "The ...

I wanted to offer a suggestion for future articles on this subject: a deeper exploration of what it means that prairie dogs are a keystone species. While you briefly mentioned their status as such, ...

Black-tailed prairie dogs, the best known of the five prairie dog species, live in larger communities called towns, which may contain many hundreds of animals. Typically they cover less than half ...

Prairie dogs serve as a keystone species but have little special protection under state law. According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, black-tailed prairie dogs are abundant in Colorado and are ...

These ferrets are carnivores that mainly eat black-tailed prairie dogs, another grassland species ... the grassland ecosystem as a keystone species. Their heavy hoofs help to aerate the soil ...

Conserving this habitat benefits other grassland species that depend on the prairie dog for food and habitat. Published in Diversity and Distributions in January, this research and accompanying ...

The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...

Prairie dogs: Keystone species of the grasslands The depletion of grasslands is attributed to the detrimental farming practices of the late 1800s, and as grasslands have suffered, so has the ...