Con Slobodchikoff is a word nerd of a different sort than the ones we usually write about on the Rumpus.
After studying prairie dogs for thirty years, he’s concluded that they have a language more complex than humans would ever have imagined.
“They’re able to describe the colour of clothes the humans are wearing,” he says in this CBC article. “They’re able to describe the size and shape of humans, even, amazingly, whether a human once appeared with a gun.” Click through for more borderline unbelievable revelations about animal communication.
