Forget the treetops—a burrowing owl nests underground. Some use the dens of other animals. Find out what these owls eat and ...

After an anonymous donor approached the wildlife center to save the critters, they reached out to the city and got the ball ...

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 ...

Research reveals that some prairie dog alarm calls encode remarkably specific information about humans and other predators.

Prairie dogs start barking bloody murder and scramble for their burrows as a hawk glides fast and low over the colony. The emergency broadcast gives the rotund fur balls ample warning. For the raptor, ...

Last fall, I fell in love with prairie dogs on the American Prairie in Montana even though the hype for America’s Great ...

Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...