Natural World - Season 29 Episode 11 Prairie Dogs - Talk of the Town
Prairie Dogs are America's answer to the meerkat - small, sociable and exceptionally cute. This offbeat film narrated by Rob Brydon takes us to the Wild West where prairie dogs live in huge colonies known as 'towns'. Like meerkats they are comical to watch, but there is a whole lot more to prairie dogs than just being cute - they can talk.
For 30 years Professor Con Slobodchikoff has been recording their calls in response to predators like coyotes, hawks and badgers. He believes he has discovered a language second only to humans in its complexity. It's a bold claim but is he right? Con has devised a series of cunning field experiments to help prove his point.
Year: 2020
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom, France
Studio: BBC Two
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Cast: David Attenborough, John Hannah, Juliet Stevenson
Crew: Brian Jackman (Writer), Andrew Graham-Brown (Director), Mike Birkhead (Director)
First Air Date: Oct 30, 1983
Last Air date: Mar 20, 2020
Season: 39 Season
Episode: 543 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 7.00/10 by 24.00 users
Popularity: 78.952
Language: English
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