After the shirt switch, prairie dogs would change their descriptive calls to identify, for instance, "a tall human in a gray shirt," Slobodchikoff says. "It's amazing!" Shawnee Riplog-Peterson, ...

Coteries of Kansans are bringing new life to a dying town at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The migrants, 24 black-tailed prairie dogs from three different families, or "coteries," resided at ...

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Much anxiety and interest have been buzzing around on social media and local conversations about the possible extermination of native prairie dogs from John Stiff Memorial Park in Amarillo. In one ...