Twelve prairie dog pups are now on display at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, officials announced Friday. Pups are born blind and ...

Because the pups are born underground, zoo workers won't know exactly how many were born this season until they all leave the ...

BOSTON (WPRI) — Those taking a trip to Franklin Park Zoo will be able to see a dozen new furry faces. Now that it’s spring, Prairie dog pups begin emerging from their underground burrows, and this ...

Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by many mounds of packed earth at their surface entrances. Burrows have defined nurseries, sleeping ...

To report this story, we traveled to the National Zoo’s main campus in Northwest ... and landowners sought to poison and kill prairie dogs, their actions made these ferrets more scarce, too.

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 ...