Dear EarthTalk: "Are prairie dogs threatened or endangered these days?" – Joseph P., via email ...

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 ...

Even though prairie dogs are a keystone species across the West with shrinking population numbers, they are as-yet not federally protected.