Not much hair, just a few bristles, but it’s still there. Some mammals are small and live near you. Like dogs and cats who have soft hair or fur. And hamsters, hedgehogs and rats and even bats.

Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by many mounds of packed earth at their surface entrances. Burrows have defined nurseries, sleeping ...

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 ...