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Now, the one thing that scientists and researchers still struggle with and they believe it's absent with prairie dogs is the ability to communicate about things not currently present in space or time. So researchers know that prairie dogs, highly social creatures, large colonies are always chatting back and forth, even when there isn't a predator present and they make a lot of noise. But in the acoustic research, they think that prairie dog calls are more or less strictly tied to immediate environmental stimuli, right, with things going on in the here and now. They don't vocalize about something if a threat is