Prairie Dog Species Black-tailed prairie dogs, the best known of the five prairie dog species, live in larger communities called towns, which may contain many hundreds of animals. Typically they ...

Utah Prairie Dog (Cynomys parvidens) The Utah prairie dog is a small rodent found only in the southwestern United States, primarily in southern Utah.

“Those little barks are very loud — they can carry quite a long way,” said co-author Andrew Dreelin, who also works for the Smithsonian. The long-billed curlew nests in short-grass prairie and ...

WHILE working upon the tertiary beds of the plains east of the Rocky Mountains recently, I had numerous opportunities of making observations on the habits of those peculiar creatures the Burrowing ...

Arguably the most renowned wildlife in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Elk, a member of the deer family, flourishes in the state’s lush forests. According to Colorado Parks & Wildlife, the early 1900s ...