Twelve prairie dog pups are now on display at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, officials announced Friday.Pups are born blind and hairless and do not make an appearance outside of the burrow until they are ...

Before today, I had no idea that people even kept prairie dogs as pets. But this guy does in Palm Beach Florida, and what’s more, his animals are extremely popular on social media. Poppy, the prairie ...

Some new furry faces have popped up at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo. Black-tailed prairie dog pups that were born around three weeks ago underground in the Bridgeport zoo's habitat have begun coming to ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — Exciting news from the Potawatomi Zoo — they have baby prairie dogs! The zoo shared a video of one of the babies. The babies, called pups, will live their first six weeks ...

Prairie dogs and groundhogs are incredibly similar animals, often so much so that people may think they are different names for the same creature! While that isn’t the case, it’s easy to see how it ...

Prairie dogs aren’t dogs at all but are actually a species of ground squirrels. They are cousins of the squirrels we find in our backyards. Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a ...

Predicting the weather can be as chancy as believing a Prairie Dog ...

Prairie dogs in Longmont are getting a second chance at life with help from a dedicated group of volunteers. At Dry Creek Community Park, volunteers are trapping and removing prairie dogs from their ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a ...

Hidden under the snowy ground of a Longmont neighborhood open space lives a colony of prairie dogs. Their fate will soon be decided by their neighbors, the Harvest Junction Village HOA. Amid ongoing ...