Check out the baby prairie dogs practicing their jump-yips! It’s so cute! Prairie dogs have a wide variety of calls to identify danger, defend their territory, or sound the all-clear. Some scientists have even observed different calls for different kinds of danger! The jump-yip is often used as an “all-clear,” but it’s also a signal that something is strange or surprising. Unlike a call of danger, prairie dogs don’t usually run into their burrows after a jump-yip, but it may make them be on aler

Prairie dogs don’t just scream – they name the threat

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