Black-tailed Prairie Dog performing a "jump-yip"
Prairie dogs are highly social animals and within a family group many ways of greeting or alarming each other are performed. We visited the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge a couple days ago and found two prairie dog towns in the grassland among several other habitats, like a lake and marshy areas. We love prairie dogs and despite a pretty harsh light situation around their burrows we couldn’t resist to point the lens at these funny and entertaining ground squirrels.
Black-tailed Prairie Dogs greeting each other, Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge near Azle, Texas