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The other aspect that Prairie Dogs exhibit is that they have this cognitive flexibility. They also have novelty and they have memory. And these are all things that are present with higher functioning animals, right? But the cognitive flexibility of the novelty and the memory are really key in this regard. So any type of advanced cognition, right, that provides the ability to adapt, establish communication parameters to new stimuli, right? So what does that mean? Well they can generate new words to define things that they may never have seen before. So they're able to modify and change the language as necessary in order to continue developing it. Let me drop it.
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