Family groups (a male, a few females, and their young) inhabit burrows and cooperate to share food, chase off other prairie dogs, and groom one another. These group members even greet one another ...

MIGRATION: Black-tailed prairie dogs live in large social colonies and do not migrate. Males will disperse from their home family groups upon sexual maturation but typically stay within the same ...

This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat ...