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.
娜塔莉·波特曼 詹妮弗·加纳 亚美莉卡·费雷拉 朱莉·福迪 贝姬·戈麦斯 Abby Wambach Alexis Ohanian Eni Aluko Christen Press Sydney Leroux Savannah McCaskill Vanessa Gilles Sarah Gorden Stefany Ferrer Van Ginkel Julie Uhrman Freya Coombe Allyson Swaby