The Language of the Majestic Prairie Dog

sarcasmo · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:22 pm

Thought this was interesting and I know Amber and Aric once had one as a pet. Unfortunately, around here, they're used as target practice. Excuses are made that they are pests, but none of them really hold any water.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_ne ... 493089.stm

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With a single bark, he says, a prairie dog may warn about the type and direction of an encroaching predator, and even describe its colour.

If confirmed, that means the chattering rodents communicate in a more complex way than even monkeys or dolphins.

badfish · **Joined:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:10 pm **Posts:** 2011

Petey scared the crap out of Amber and I the first time he did his greeting yelp at us. We went out and bought a book to try and figure out what the hell he was doing.

kloud · **Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:55 am

Yea, Petey definitely had an interesting little array of noises. Many of them were a bit unexpected, coming from a rodent.

sarcasmo · **Posted:** Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:50 am

I was out with the drilling crew last week and a coyote popped up out of the grass and went cruising through a prairie dog town. Needless to say, the place was a chirping madhouse.

You can kind of make out the prairie dogs in the background standing up.

And here's some of the coyote a little more close up.

The Potato Farm

The Language of the Majestic Prairie Dog

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