Is your dog’s digging in your yard driving you crazy? Have you given up trying to maintain a lawn or flower bed because your four-legged friend destroys it in a matter of hours? You are not alone!

Research reveals that some prairie dog alarm calls encode remarkably specific information about humans and other predators.

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, ...