Colorado State University researchers have identified priority areas for the conservation of the black-tailed prairie dog in the United States, extending from Montana to Texas and New Mexico to ...

Coyotes and badgers rely on the prairie dog for food, as depicted with this hunting pair prowling around a black-tailed prairie dog colony. Photo by Noelle Guernsey/Colorado State University ...

Cutting-edge technology designed to track and understand the secret, underground lives and behavior of the elusive black-footed ferret has been deployed in the wild for the first time. Believed to be ...

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September ...

One such animal that adopts this positioning is the meerkat. This cute, bite-sized member of the mongoose family resides in the grasslands and deserts of southern Africa. Their look is ...

The baby meerkats hear that dinner’s on its way. Picture: Tim Hunter The baby capybaras chow down on some leaves. Picture: Tim Hunter “The capybara babies are currently learning to swim with ...

BISMARCK — North Dakota legislators advanced a bill Thursday, Jan. 9, that would shake up how much money townships receive from "Operation Prairie Dog," which distributes oil and gas revenue ...

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Stanley Coren, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of British Columbia, has spent his career investigating dog intelligence. He adapted a psychological measure called mental age ...

What Do Prairie Voles Have to Do With It? Fisher’s work on the human neural mechanism of love built upon the work of social neuroscientists like Tom Insel of the NIH and Larry Young of Emory ...

Haggard spoke with Newsweek about the transformative role the dog has played in... A screenshot of the TikTok video showing Heather Haggard's daughter cuddling their English mastiff, Rayne ...