image: Dr. John L. Hoogland releasing a Utah prairie dog after he has applied field markings. Every prairie dog is released near the same hole where it was trapped. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the March 8, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by John Hoogland at University of Maryland in Frostburg, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Prairie Dogs Disperse When All Close Kin Have Disappeared." view more
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