The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...

Black-tailed prairie dogs, the best known of the five prairie dog species, live in larger communities ... prairie dogs were exterminated, and their range subsequently shrunk to perhaps five ...

RANGE: The black-tailed prairie dog is found in isolated populations from Central Texas to just north of the Canadian border. MIGRATION: Black-tailed prairie dogs live in large social colonies and do ...

and tail tip. This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets ...

Davidson's "Homes on the Range" core research team—comprised ... Davidson et al, Potential Landscapes for Conservation of the Black‐Tailed Prairie Dog Ecosystem, Diversity and Distributions ...

To do so, he's resurrecting native prairie. Glenn Oakley In their quest to restore prairie habitat, the Cheyenne River Sioux are maintaining colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs, which cattle ...

The diminutive prairie dog plays an outsized role in the prairie ecosystem ... home to the world’s largest remaining colony of black-tailed prairie dogs. Earlier this year, plague resurfaced in this ...