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tangible items impacting their environment directly. Once you remove all those stimuli, the prairie dogs are just sort of there. That doesn't mean that they may not have this ability. That doesn't mean that they don't have the ability to understand abstract concepts. We just don't have any evidence verbally that they're doing that. That's all that I was saying as far as the research is concerned. All right, that's it for me. And Tom, thank you so much for that. And as you were talking there, you're talking in terms of prairie dogs of abstract thinking and I guess a long lab line would be taken into consideration critical thinking as well. Kip and Z. For instance, and there was a gorilla coco taught a sign language. And people were confusing that for a long time.
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