Prairie Protection Colorado has sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture three times in six years for supporting lethal ...

Another prairie dog species, the white-tailed prairie dog, lives in the western mountains. These rodents do not gather in large towns but maintain more scattered burrows. All species hunker down ...

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, ...

DESCRIPTION: The black-tailed prairie dog is a daytime-active, medium-sized rodent, ranging in length from 12 to 15 inches, including a three- to four-inch tail. Its weight ranges from 1.5 to three ...

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 squirrels, mice, and other rodents, prairie dogs are ...

“It can take just one infected flea.” One common carrier is a widely loved, misnamed rodent: the prairie dog. Plague-bearing fleas thrive in the warm burrows of prairie dog colonies then seek ...

Even though prairie dogs are a keystone species across the West with shrinking population numbers, they are as-yet not federally protected.