AZ Animals on MSN

Meet the unintentional engineers of the animal world

Most animals move through their habitats focused on survival rather than construction. They eat, dig, travel, and reproduce ...
The Gazette

Researchers use cutting-edge tech to track the continent’s most endangered mammal

A ferret is released into a prairie dog burrow at the Southern Plains Land Trust in Lamar, Colo. Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025 (Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Ryan Jones) LAMAR — Hours after being released ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Denver’s Street-Smart Prairie Dogs

Prairie dogs start barking bloody murder and scramble for their burrows as a hawk glides fast and low over the colony. The emergency broadcast gives the rotund fur balls ample warning. For the raptor, ...
Tucson Weekly

Burrows Without Borders

The Arizona Game and Fish Department took 60 prairie dogs out of northern Mexico last year for release into Southern Arizona—but Mexican conservationists say they didn’t have the prairie dogs to spare ...
The Gazette

Researchers in Colorado using cutting-edge tech to track the continent’s most endangered mammal

A ferret is released into a prairie dog burrow at the Southern Plains Land Trust in Lamar, Colo. Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025 (Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Ryan Jones) LAMAR — Hours after being released ...