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Natural World - Season 29 Episode 11 Prairie Dogs - Talk of the Town

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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.

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