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And that allows them to identify these discrete acoustic structures that operate similarly to phonemes. And phonemes are the fundamental distinct units of sound in human speech. Right? So what the prairie dogs are basically... The human language, for example, has a finite set of these phonemes. And we use these to construct our huge vocabulary of meaningful morphemes and words, right? So prairie dogs, their calls, recombine these structural sounds in varying proportions and sequences. And this allows them to alter the meaning of the call. Right? So the system is basically similar to what humans would call tonal languages, right? So it relies on multifactorial encoding processes where these light frequency modulations interact to weave different things together. Right? So you'll have a predator identity, a size-shaped color all the way.