Tag: plague

Black-tailed prairie dogs seem to be only victims to sylvatic plague, rather than reservoirs for the disease in the grasslands environments where they live. Sylvatic plague is the wildlife version...

For those who live out West, stories about people infected with plague are not uncommon. Usually, people are exposed when their pets become infected or carry plague-infected fleas. People can...

Vaccines have been getting a lot of attention recently as scientists work to protect people from COVID-19. The use of vaccines for animals in the wild has been rare, but...

In Wyoming’s Thunder Basin National Grassland, imperiled mountain plovers choose nesting habitats on the edges of black-tailed prairie dog colonies, researchers found. The grassland plover species is known to nest...

This past September in Meeteetse, Wyoming, biologists panned spotlights over a moonlit prairie dog town. Each flash of emerald eyeshine marked a captive-bred ferret living wild in its ancestral home. “Once...

Twenty-nine years ago, biologists traveled to the ranching community of Meeteetse in Wyoming to trap the last few black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) in existence. Now, the descendants of those ferrets...

Black-footed ferret recovery took two new steps forward in October, with releases outside of Denver at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge and on the Crow Nation lands east...