What is a prairie dog thinking?
Has a specific call that means you. The whole town knows it by now.
Research on Gunnison's prairie dogs found their alarm calls vary with what is approaching - not just "predator", but different calls for a hawk, a coyote and a human, and measurable variation for the size and colour of clothing a person is wearing.
The colonies are the other half. Prairie dog towns run to thousands of animals in connected burrow systems, so one call is heard by a great many residents at once.
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