Sentences with phrase «called prairie dogs»

They mostly feed on small mammals called prairie dogs.

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In the latest study, the team recorded the alarm calls as three similar - sized women wearing blue, yellow or green T - shirts walked past the prairie dogs 99 times.

According to Slobodchikoff, these calls, with their individuality in response to a specific predator, imply that prairie dogs have highly developed cognitive abilities.

[12] According to them, prairie dog calls contain specific information as to what the predator is, how big it is and how fast it is approaching.

Frustration over the program's persistent lack of transparency about the methods it uses to kill millions of animals each year, including coyotes, bobcats, otters, foxes, prairie dogs and black bears (and countless non-target animals) is growing and media attention, including a recent in - depth opinion piece in The New York Times, has begun to shine light on this federal program's shadowy activities with a call for reform.

Dialects in the alarm calls of prairie dogs.

Communication of stimulus size and shape in alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs.

Acoustic structures in the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs.

A fuzzy - neural system for identification of species - specific alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs.

Perceptual specificity in the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs.

Geographical variation in alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs.

Semantic information distinguishing individual predators in the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs.

According to Dr. Con Slobodchikoff, who turned his vocalization analysis on the Gunnison's prairie dog of Arizona and New Mexico, the chirps these animals use as «alert calls» are actually word - like packages of information to share with the rest of the colony.

After more than 25 years of studying the calls of prairie dog in the field, one researcher managed to decode just what these animals are saying.