Hey, Look at That Human!

According to a researcher, Northern Arizona University professor of biology Con Slobodchikoff, prairie dogs can talk, or use “words.”

"Prairie dogs, those little pups popping in and out of holes on vacant lots and rural rangeland, are talking up a storm.

They have different “words” for tall human in yellow shirt, short human in green shirt, coyote, deer, red-tailed hawk and many other creatures.

They can even coin new terms for things they’ve never seen before, independently coming up with the same calls or words, according to Con Slobodchikoff, a Northern Arizona University biology professor and prairie dog linguist."

I wonder what they’re “saying” about the professor.  Con man?

“Scientist: Prairie dogs appear to have their own language"

Thanks, Pfeif.

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