{"id":2708,"date":"2011-01-20T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2011-01-20T10:46:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:46:31","slug":"new-language-discovered-prairiedogese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=2708","title":{"rendered":"New Language Discovered: Prairiedogese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Reposted from NPR&#8217;s Morning\u00a0Edition by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you learn a second language, there&#8217;s usually a moment where things click \u2014 you overhear some snippet of conversation and suddenly, you just get it, effortlessly.\u00a0 Professor Con Slobodchikoff of Northern Arizona University has spent the past 30 years studying a foreign tongue. But there are no instructional podcasts or evening classes to help him: Slobodchikoff is trying to learn prairie dog.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">View interactive media demonstrating\u00a0some of the discoveries Dr.\u00a0Slobodchikoff has\u00a0made and listen to\u00a0the\u00a07 minute\u00a0NPR Story at the following link.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/01\/20\/132650631\/new-language-discovered-prairiedogese\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/01\/20\/132650631\/new-language-discovered-prairiedogese<\/a><\/p>\n<p>for those of you with access to prairie dogs colonies, it could be quite interesting to attempt to replicate Dr. Slobodchikoff&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional\u00a0Links of Potential Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Video\u00a0Clip on Dr. Slobodchikoff&#8217;s work from the BCC Program <em>Prairie Dogs Talk of the Town<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prairie Dogs Warning Each Other of Danger | Natural World | BBC Earth\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OdLvQhMcaTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>BBC Video Clip on Coyote Predation\u00a0 Prairie Dogs<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coyote Predators | Natural World | BBC Earth\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/raKjKHUEHoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Purchase the research article that most likely motivated the NPR Story at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6W9W-4JNF0Y1-2&amp;_user=10&amp;_coverDate=11%2F30%2F1991&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=high&amp;_orig=search&amp;_origin=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;_docanchor=&amp;view=c&amp;_searchStrId=1613967739&amp;_rerunOrigin=google&amp;_acct=C000050221&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=10&amp;md5=a2b0c7223f6854ec97eac019d6d0382c&amp;searchtype=a\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Semantic information distinguishing individual predators in the alarm calls of Gunnison&#8217;s prairie dogs<br \/>\n<\/strong>C.N. Slobodchikoff, J. Kiriazis, C. Fischer and E. Creef<br \/>\nDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, U.S.A.<br \/>\nAnimal Behavior, Volume 42, Issue 5, November 1991, pages 713-719<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Purchase Dr. Slobodchikoff&#8217;s recent book on prairie dog communiction at:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prairie-Dogs-Communication-Community-Society\/dp\/0674031814\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/prairiedogbook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/prairiedogbook.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/prairiedogbook-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/prairiedogbook-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Con Slobodchikoff&#8217;s Website &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conslobodchikoff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.conslobodchikoff.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animallanguageinstitute.net\/Home\/tabid\/36\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Language Institute<\/a> where Slobodchikoff is the Director<\/li>\n<li>BBC News Story &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8493000\/8493089.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Burrowing US prairie dogs use complex\u00a0language<\/a>, this link has a couple more BBC video clips that I couldn&#8217;t find via YouTube<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reposted from NPR&#8217;s Morning\u00a0Edition by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich If you learn a second language, there&#8217;s usually a moment where things click \u2014 you overhear some snippet of conversation and suddenly, you just get it, effortlessly.\u00a0 Professor Con Slobodchikoff of Northern Arizona University has spent the past 30 years studying a foreign tongue. 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