Natural World
Season 29 Episode 11 - Prairie Dogs - Talk of the Town
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1983
Documentary
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.
Episodes in Season 29
1
Bearwalker of the Northwoods
2
Victoria Falls - The Smoke that Thunders
3
Andrea - Queen Of Mantas
4
Black Mamba, White Witch
5
Bringing Up Baby
6
A Highland Haven
7
Radio Gibbon
8
Birds of Paradise
51 min
9
The Secret Leopards
10
The Chimpcam Project
11
Prairie Dogs - Talk of the Town
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12
The Wild Places of Essex
13
A Killer Whale Called Luna
14
