Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of ...

CCHHS also confirmed on Tuesday afternoon a case of hantavirus and an incident of rabies exposure in Coconino County.

A study of the genetic basis of plague immunity in prairie dogs has broad implications for conservation. From white-nose ...

Arizona health officials are concerned about a prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff that could be the result of a ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A potential "die-off" of prairie dogs has been reported in northern Arizona, prompting public health ...

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

The prairie dog may be losing a long battle to survive, threatened constantly by the changing western landscape and everything from fleas to the bubonic plague to its own kinfolk. It turns out ...

Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog towns across the dry grasslands of North America. They may be adorable, but these little mammals are fierce fighters with.

Though black-tailed prairie dogs have a long-standing reputation as pests, their ingenious tunnel systems and industrious prairie pruning make them one of the West’s primary ecosystem engineers.

Prairie dogs may have the most extensive vocabulary of any animal other than humans. They can actually distinguish, linguistically, between a short human in a blue shirt and a tall human in a ...

“Prairie dogs are on the menu for just about every predator you can think of”— golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, foxes, badgers, even large snakes — said Andy Boyce, a research ecologist in Montana at ...