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

Last fall, I fell in love with prairie dogs on the American Prairie in Montana even though the hype for America’s Great Plains pointed me to bison. As impressive as North America’s largest land mammal ...

Meet the Cincinnati Zoo's newest animal ambassador.

Chuck the prairie dog has never met a stranger — from dogs and cats to squirrels and everything in between, he runs up to every animal like he’s making a new best friend. Raised by humans after being ...