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a predator or something coming in. When something is coming into the colony, they can be very vocal, right? They're very vocal, everything is going on. But when nothing's happening and it's quiet, they're there. And if they do a jumpy up or jump or anything else, the researchers haven't seen any of these complicated acoustic patterns that they've seen, again, when something a person, whoever is going through the colony, when it's just the prairie dogs on their own, they're not seeing these complex sub-patterns in the acoustic data. And what they were saying is that they have skepticism, they're skepticism from the linguistic community. And that sort of revolves around the concept of what they refer to in speech as displacement and infinite recursion, right? So while they can categorize and describe the immediate physical world, the researchers