walking through a field minding my own business the other day when I hear a prairie dog call me fat and say my shirt looked stupid. my mother bought be that shirt.. Mr.prairie dog

@theredsofine8375

6 ай бұрын

😹😹that's hilarious

@P4ou4

2 ай бұрын

At least your heckler was a male. My confidence has never been in the pits… until that one day. I'm still not comfortable repeating the words of my… abusive rat! She's not next to you… is she? Just checking.

I wonder if they have distinct enough voices that one might freak out at hearing their own voice played back to them, or think it was weird that the voice of the guy sitting quietly next to them was coming from the distance.

I will learn their language and become their king!

@PG-wz7by

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, that's very interesting. I wonder how experiments to communicate in this decoded language may work. Whatever, please don't become their trump.

@englishlanguagewithnina5965

2 жыл бұрын

What if you found out they had All the answers? Lol

@alqaadi9858

2 жыл бұрын

@@englishlanguagewithnina5965 "i need to know" "chirp chirp" "MORE, TELL ME MORE" "chirp chirp chiirp!" "apologies for my indecency, i simply got too excited"

@lorenheard2561

2 жыл бұрын

@@PG-wz7by Get over Pres. Trump and your "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Go lick bidens'toes... Sniff his hair while you're at it😉

@classichorror8538

Жыл бұрын

8 years later, g gg gGuy’s i i I over heard them them them them t t tt talking about k k kk kk k killing all human’s 😳

This research on prairie dogs is one of the most important discoveries in linguistics and the harmonic structure of language.

@mugjug5827

7 жыл бұрын

Color Wheel Music Theory and

@daniellewilson8527

5 жыл бұрын

And it is amazing that humans realize we are not the only animals with languages, we can now realize that language isn't what makes us unique, we can realize that there probably a lot more communication complexities with other animals that may be as, or more complex than, our own

@mateogimenez5970

4 жыл бұрын

@@daniellewilson8527 i suggest you to read Vygotsky its very interesting

@jacobshirley3457

2 жыл бұрын

@@daniellewilson8527 Same story with tool use, culture, and probably more to come.

@rickrose5377

Жыл бұрын

​@@daniellewilson8527 A prairie dog couple recently bought my house. They're renovating the basement, and they just built a pool!

I have had prairie dogs as pets for about 15 years now ... my newest ones are only about 2 years old .. but each morning ... I come out of my bedroom and my male sees me and I say 'good morning' and he does the 'jump yip' and then I mimic him best I can and he mimics back ... our record is him repeating me 7 times in a row .. I think he gets bored mimicking me or I don't hit the right notes after that many times ... anyway its our good morning to each other that I love.

The Jumping Yip is the cutest damn thing I have ever seen!

This is both fascinating and adorable. Nice combination.

I think the chatter vocalization might be a sort of "checking in" call. It could be a question "Are you there" with a reply being "I am here" or it might even be an announcement "I am here" with another prairie dog acknowledging it's presence.

I have two female prairie dogs as pets and my guess from what I learned is that mine probably do not have a language. They never learned. Their's are probably baby talk. They do how ever exhibit certain behavior with their calls. The warning chirps mine make let's me know they are not in the mood for company and will actually be a bit aggressive. Their stand up and call sound lets me know they are happy to see me and will be super cuddly and affectionate. They also make that call when I sneeze, cough, and crack open a beer. All I know is they when they chirp, give them their space, when they stand up and call then go pick them up and get some lovin!!!!

@ReidGarwin

5 жыл бұрын

Haha the sneeze sounds like a that little howl / jump yip they do. I miss my prairie dog

excellent, important work. I always thought that it was irrational (and arrogant) that humans would think that other species, who share similar anatomical features, do not have language. Can't wait to read Chasing Doctor Dolittle

I'm 11 years late but this is absolutely fascinating

I saw a prairie dog run up to a rabbit that was in their colony, do the jump yip, and then run back to its hole. The rabbit did not move the whole time. Interesting if it was a territorial dispute.

WoW they have a full language. Excellent work.

I watched this a few years ago when I was staying in Cedar Crest, NM on the mountain above Albuquerque where there were a few colonies of prairie dogs. I was entranced by them and their flittle communities. Thank you for sharing this video and making your research so accessible to lay people!

The people conducting this research are geniuses

Incredible work and discovery. I couldn't even priorly conceive that their random yipping was anything past contextual grunts. Interesting AND adorable!

Oh my goodness! This is amazing. I grew up with a squirrel monkey for 13 years. She definitely understood our language and we understood what her chirps and skwaks were all about. She had different chirps for greetings for each family member, for when she wanted our food, and so much more. Animals are so amazing. I hate hearing how humans are supposedly better than animals. No we aren't. We are just different.

I am an Australian living in Singapore, so therefore have never known anything about Prairie Dogs other than that they exist. Found this video fascinating & thanks for your painstaking research into this field.

What adorable creatures they are, and it is so good how this scientist has used his mind to venture towards the specifics of their communication. How exciting what we know -& also what we don't know!

What's odd is I had a guinea pig do this exact same thing a few years ago. I had initially seen the segment on discovery. It wasn't until a year or so later I was talking with my mother, leaving him in her care for a weekend while I went camping. He did almost the exact same jump-yip sound as these prairie dogs. First and only time I heard him do it, but we both heard it and still have no idea what it means. On occasion I've heard other guinea pig owners comment they've heard Guineas do a bird whistle call rarely, maybe once or twice during the pigs lifetime. I had another pig, heard him doing that seemingly randomly, only once. Initially thinking how on earth did a bird get into my living room. But it wasn't coming from the guinea enclosure. Otherwise I only ever heard their usual chattering, rumbling and calls for food. Still a mystery.

@SuperSmashDolls

Жыл бұрын

One of my guinea pigs started chirping a few years ago when my parents were watching a very loud movie downstairs. I'm entirely on board the "chirping is a panic response that's less panicky than playing dead" hypothesis.

Since moving to the plains prairie dogs have quickly become my favorite animal. Love these little guys

Holy crap. This is so fascinating! Watching this video made my day - I very much enjoyed learning about prairie dog language.

Very good work Mr. Slobodchikoff. I hope this research will make more humans appreciate this species and refrain from using high-powered rifles to obliterate them.

@mugjug5827

7 жыл бұрын

The Kirk so

@hinder90

7 жыл бұрын

The topic on animal consciousness is profoundly fascinating but it raises all sorts of ethical issues which most people (myself include) try not to think about. If we did like to think about them, most of us would probably feel like monsters most of the time and nothing would get done. I worry that by the time humanity understands (let alone accepts the existence of) animal consciousness there won't be many creatures left (at least ones that exist in a natural habitat) to share these experiences with, like having a prairie dog call me fat and a poor dresser.

@adrianamara6063

4 жыл бұрын

@The Kirk. I share your hope. Also that this knowledge will bring more balance to humans' perception of the world and put the brakes on our wholesale destruction of all species.

@rareosts5752

3 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't change the havoc they cause lol, the reasons for getting rid of infestations would still be present

@jerryeinstandig7996

2 жыл бұрын

sick a=holes with guns think it's great sport to slaughter tiny animals to prove what great hunters they are

It makes me wonder if differing dialects can eventually understand each other. Like if two prairie dogs from different colonies got together, and seeing multiple predators of the same species/description) eventually learn the language of their colleague. Or even form their own dialect due to the mash-up. This shit is fascinating and so exciting that we've only scratched the tip of the iceberg on this.

The jump yip is adorable!

This was excellent, thank you. I have your book and can't wait to read it.

I can testify that they still haven't created a call for "dude with stick that goes bang".

Fascinating video, thank you so much for sharing! Greetings from Mexico

Hello, I love this video and frequently use it in my lectures. Would it be possible to add closed captions to it, to enhance accessibility? I am happy to write these up, but am not able to upload them with the current video settings. Thanks!

This is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for uploading this video!

I really hope you guys are doing more studies with other animals! It's amazing to learn about this. Great job!! 👏 👏 👏

wow thats very interesting and here I thought it was birds chipping when I was living in Ramah, NM(a small Navajo Reservation) theres bunch of those guys runnin around but then again they're crazy cause they like to run across the road a second before a car passes by to see if they got across, drop down before getting hit or they got run over for bein dumb. On the Gila River reservation in AZ, there are prairie dogs that are smaller and run in straight lines to burrows, they sound different too.

Thanks for sharing this video :) All the best!

Amazing work !

This is so interesting. Thank you.

Doesn't surprise me at all! Great research!

AWWW THE JUMP YIP CALL IS SO CUTE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Fascinating!

love these adorable creatures. large groups of them live near my parent's home in colorado.

Very cool. Thank you.

This is amazing and very interesting!!!

Outstanding.

Very interesting video. Thanks.

This is amazing

MIND BLOWN

This is so cool!!

So cute!

amazing...

I hope I'm not repeating this. I've typed it once lol maybe didn't summit it. I live in Texas. I work for TXDOT I know a huge dog town that is on both sides of the road. This town gets closer every month or two to the edge of the road. It would be great that someone look at them studies them before the hunters come in. Thanks

amazing!!

The little prairie dogs are sooo cute

Amazing comm skills 😮

Yet more proof that those other sentient beings with which we share this planet should and must be respected as brothers of the earth and not "just animals". Rats too have been found to be more intelligent that we have known before. Its about time human animals started treating all sentient beings with more respect.!xx

Hurray! It's a wonderful day!

This stuck with me a few days

This is incredibly interesting. Also does that mean a prairie dog can call me fat?

@Dogy0909

8 ай бұрын

I bet they kept saying it’s that fat bitch again every time I walked past a colony when I first started weight loss

thanks

Maybe I wasn’t paying attention but did they ever talk about the reactions to the calls

Fascinating work!!

MIND... BLOWN... :D

so cute

I wonder if you could introduce a prairie dog from a distant community (with a microphone strapped on) to see what sort of alarm response it would receive. There might even be a language lesson for the newcomer...

Lol amazing work :)

the implications of this are just fantastically mind-blowing. grammatical structures embedded in single chirps! haha! makes us seem so basic!

Whoa, someone's touchy!

It would appear that there is a trend in threat level and frequency of the yips. Although, I am unsure why a hawk would be a single yip. Perhaps because a hawk inst much of a major threat? Sure it can easily swoop away a single prairie dog but that is nothing compared to a land predators ability to munch them down like hotcakes.

@Damstraight68

7 жыл бұрын

tannershadow1 hawks are actually the biggest danger and can strike more quickly than other predators. my uneducated guess would be that hawks are of the hugest threat level and notifications of their presence must be swift and therefore more straight to the point. not to mention that hawks do not differ between themselves so less information is needed to get the point across in the call

@completelybraindead

7 жыл бұрын

Damstraight68 Hmm, That is interesting. Come to think of it they would hide in their holes the moment they saw a land predator coming. Which most land predators wouldn't have much of a chance of breaching their defenses. So it would make sense that they would need to be quick with their language while communicating that there is a bird of prey coming, in order to hide quickly. This would mean that humans were not perceived as a major threat. Which I suppose is a good thing?

@Damstraight68

7 жыл бұрын

***** .. It is possible they don't see us as threats but I think that would be subjective to the group in question. Rather, I think the tactility of a bird being able to swoop down as opposed to a land mammal having to approach the burrow from the land may have something to do with it. The Hawk can attack much more swiftly and without notice.

@NuntiusLegis

7 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the single sound mimics the single sound hawks make.

In two other videos the prairie dogs did the "yip-jump." 1) When several were ganging up on a snake to drive it away. ["Prairie Dog Snake Alarm | American Serengeti"] kzread.info/dash/bejne/m5eVqauef7yfl8Y.html 2) When 1 prairie dog mom alone was luring the snake away from her babies. ["Brave Prairie Dog Confronts Snake | North America"] kzread.info/dash/bejne/omSOqZqSoLSnhaQ.html

Omg like awwwe!!! The tiny little f*cks 🥺🙏🏼💕

They are so damn cute!!! I want 100!

I sold them as pets. Just live with one for a while, easy to recognize. Most common bark was all clear 👍

Now I know where the leaks from the Whitehouse are coming from

@PG-wz7by

6 жыл бұрын

This is funny :)

Prairie Dog said I was misshapen and had terrible fashion sense so all of them hide away from me.

Is it possible the random chatters are in fact a "name" or role call?

I will now incorporate jump-yips in my daily life.

This is really astonishing !

Question: As I have read, prairie dogs live in underground burrows - now, doesn't that restrict somehow their color vision?

@Heartofstonestudio001

4 жыл бұрын

No, because most of their daily activity is above ground, outside the burrows.

@beatcatsfansubs

3 жыл бұрын

The video mentions that they can't see the color red.

The jump yip means "so long and thanks for all the fish."

Amazing, but not surprising.

Ladies and gentlemen: our future rulers.

Wow this is amazing

Cool study, do one for dogs next. :)

Has this research been peer-reviewed?

Those killer whales are called Lolita and Hugo, by the way. :D

This is fascinating. I hope you will continue to uncover the mysteries of animal communications. I have noticed that when you walk in a forest, a short repeated call is almost universal among species to alert of an intruder (in this case is myself). I have, on many occasions, heard that sudden repeated call alarming of danger by various species of birds. So, there is a cross-species communication but it is regional. And birds migrate over long distances, so it is "universal".

I gotta catch 'em all, just like Pokemon!

I wonder if the social chatter call could be something like "Adam (the other sentry guard) are you still there?" and then the reply is "Yes, this is Adam, I'm here." It might be unique to which prairie dog is being addressed. That way, only the prairie dog addressed by the call will answer.

I "didn't never" heard about Nim Chimpsky - I READ about him. And I'm pretty sure he didn't die of a broken adult male red deer (a hart).

*chatter chatter chatter* Are you alright, honey? *chatter chatter chatter* Yes, I'm alright, dear.

I'm wondering - what's the basis of the statement, that they have more sophisticated language than, let's say dolphins...

wow

How long until The Oatmeal falls in love with these dudes?

hooray it's a wonderful day!

cute

My prairie dog pet is a black tailed one and he does the jump-Yip when he's locked on the cage and realizes me or my girlfriend arrived home. We understand it as an "hurray! incoming play time!". He then gets near the cage door waiting to be released :)

Is there any chance of them evolving to human level intelligence?

amazing

Squirrels are inteligent animals

That's pretty crazy XD

Must be a bad day if a prairie dog calls you fat

A lot of rodents have similar language squirrels are kind of close to this.