Go to town with these iconic North American rodents. Learn about the complex underground societies these charismatic critters ...

Prairie dogs are an important food source for predators in the area. Also, their burrows provide shelter to other animals and they eat a diet of vegetation, keeping plants from overgrowing.

Find out why the black-footed ferret teeters on the brink of extinction. Burrow deeper into this mask-bandit's “business.” ...

Their diet is very important and they must be given a lot of roughage in the form of grass, hay, and fresh vegetables. Properly cared for, prairie dogs can live eight to ten years.

In the early 1800s when Lewis & Clark explored the Louisiana territory, they were particularly intrigued with a small underground "barking squirrel" that perched on its mound sending warnings to ...