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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colorado State University researchers have identified priority areas for the conservation of the black-tailed ... for the prairie dog ecosystem. Davidson’s “Homes on the Range” core research ...

Those are the black-tailed prairie dog (which lives in ... dogs used to live from Mexico to Canada. But today, the prairie dog’s range has shrunk to 5% of the size it was before the settlers ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Abstract: Expansion of black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies on public and private lands can result in damage to ...

Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 60-67 (8 pages) Cecil, H. C., J. Bitman, J. A. Svoboda, and M. J. Thompson. 1979. Effects of branched and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...