Prairie Dogs

Drawing on more than four decades of groundbreaking fieldwork, John Hoogland offers a fascinating window into the lives of prairie dogs—highly social, diurnal rodents that inhabit the grasslands of western North America and function as a keystone species. The author of Prairie Dogs: Ecology and Social Behavior, Hoogland shares surprising discoveries that reshape the understanding of social animals and reveals the prairie dog as a model for studying behavior, ecology, and the value of long-term research.