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Victor Alpha III Victor with the extra 480. So, what makes Prairie Dog so special? Well, they're actually, they're verbose. They talk a lot and they have a very complicated language. It's not a simple language. So, the Prairie Dog's communication system is considered by scientists to be one of the most complex and sophisticated animal languages that's ever been decoded. And a lot of what we know, in fact, the majority of what we know about their language just comes from research led by Dr. Cohn Slabachikoff and this individual is an animal behaviorist who operates out of Northern Arizona University. And how they studied the Prairie Dogs was what they would do is they would record Prairie Dog alarm calls and they analyzed the audio frequencies on spectrograms and researchers discovered that these rodents they don't just squeak in fear. They actually have these
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