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Prairie dogs rely on highly specific alarm calls to survive in exposed grassland ecosystems. Research shows that their vocalizations can encode information about predator type, size, and even human ...

"Prairie dogs have alarm calls for different species of predators," Slobodchikoff says. "We have identified different calls for humans, domestic dogs, red-tailed hawks, coyotes, cats, badgers, weasels ...