WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

City will continue to use lethal control methods and maintain a pilot program that helps landowners pay for barriers.

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct the group affiliations of Longmont residents who spoke to the City Council. The Longmont City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to refer a ...

Although tabled earlier, a House committee Saturday revived and passed with amendments a bill to help protect the black-tailed prairie dog. The species is on the waiting list for federal protection.

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, ...

A long-billed curlew flies over the Great Plains. New research suggests the birds react to danger more quickly when they hear prairie dog alarm calls. Andy Boyce, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...

A program was undertaken to develop zinc phosphide as a replacement for the more hazardous toxicants currently available to control black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). Four field trials ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two conservation groups have sued the Environmental Protection Agency for its decision to register pesticides that curtail prairie dogs, the main source of food for the endangered ...

Prairie dogs and the big picture -- The life of prairie dogs. Interlude: taxonomy and prairie dog taxonomists -- The social behavior of prairie dogs. Interlude: social behavior-trapping 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 ...

Read full article: Gainesville mother who drowned baby in bathtub said she was afraid of losing custody of child, police say WASHINGTON – Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They ...