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19 Oct 2005, 10:32 pm

Language of Prairie Dogs Includes Words for Humans

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/ ... 41206.html
By Tania Soussan
Associated Press
posted: 06 December 2004
10:19 am ET



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25 Oct 2005, 9:26 pm

How cool!



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26 Oct 2005, 7:51 am

Very cool. I heard a piece on the radio a bit ago about how birds do that as well and their 'words' for each creature in their vocabulary were identifiable by level of danger as well: the word for a more dangerous predator had more 'syllables' in it.