Research reveals that some prairie dog alarm calls encode remarkably specific information about humans and other predators.

Prairie dogs are a big part of what makes Colorado special. They’re a native animal we see all the time, and they do a lot of good for our grasslands. They are what we call a “keystone species,” which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Longmont City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to refer a citizen-initiated revision of the city’s prairie dog code to staff ...

"Prairie dogs have alarm calls for different species of predators," Slobodchikoff says. "We have identified different calls for humans, domestic dogs, red-tailed hawks, coyotes, cats, badgers, weasels ...

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 ...