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black-tailed prairie dogs

Joshua Rapp Learn

The synergistic relationship between bats and prairie dogs

August 9, 2021

Large numbers of bats hunt around black-tailed prairie dog colonies, and some may even use abandoned burrows as day roosts, recent sound surveys have revealed. Black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) are well-known ecosystem engineers. They …

Conservation News

North of border, prairie dogs less affected by plague

June 29, 2020

A plague that has had large-scale effects on prairie dog populations in the United States impacts black-tailed prairie dogs in Canadian less, but it remains a threat there due to the prairie dogs’ lower number …

Conservation News

WSB: To count prairie dogs, transmit or dye?

June 25, 2020

As wildlife managers work to translocate prairie dogs, they don’t always have the right tools to track how successful their efforts are. Researchers in Colorado recently examined the success of two new techniques to count …

Dana Kobilinsky

Imperiled mountain plovers use prairie dog colony edges

April 27, 2020

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 in places that have recently …

Conservation News

Giant motorcycle rally affects wildlife in national park

December 9, 2019

The sounds of revving engines and accelerating choppers during South Dakota’s famous Sturgis Motorcycle Rally changes the activity of several wildlife species in the national monument where one of the events takes place. “We found …

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Refuge’s ferrets wiped out after plague strikes prairie dogs

June 3, 2019

Biologists say a sylvatic plague outbreak that decimated prairie dogs in Montana’s UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge has nearly eliminated the refuge’s black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) population. Biologists counted just one ferret at the refuge …

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