Usually, when people think of using animals as guards on their property, the first thought is a dog. Dogs are big and scary, and one bark is enough to scare away any intruder. There is however another ...

Native to sub-Saharan Africa, the guinea fowl is a communal bird that doubles as a guard animal. Whenever a predator is nearby, guinea fowl begin to chirp in cooperation with other guinea fowl to ...

MANKATO — As best she can remember, Lynne Gehrke figures the flock of guinea fowl in her North Broad Street neighborhood in Mankato arrived about a dozen years ago. She wasn’t sure how they got here ...