A litter of black-tailed prairie dog pups have begun to emerge from their burrows at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, footage released on May 11 shows. Female prairie dogs usually have one litter of ...

A brave prairie dog risks everything to drive off a deadly bull snake hunting its pups, in extraordinary footage from BBC’s ...

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, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

While it definitely isn't a good idea to touch a wild animal in the first place, how likely is it that you will get a deadly ...