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This is Matthew from the video. Thanks @jackiegill, I'm so glad you enjoyed this!

Can you explain more about that?

Hi, this is Matthew from the video. So I can't speak about any scientists that have researched what colors prairie dogs are able to see. My impression of what that meant was that the prairie dogs were at least able to describe differences in the shades of colors with a section of their calls.

What?

It was made clear to me. Sounds like a “you” problem.

so read some of the papers published by him or his colleagues...? these are publicly available on Google scholar, or - if the body of the paper is hidden by a paywall - you can probably find it on scihub. or if you're in a hurry, go to the channel prairiedogchatter which has a nice series of videos by the scientists who studied this phenomenon. the process for discovering and describing the language-like aspects of prairie dog communication was pretty straightforward. their calls were recorded and analyzed to find quantifiable differences between them, and over decades of observations and experiments, it was found that there were clear, measurable, and consistent differences in calls made in response to different stimuli. not only is the vocabulary large - it also varies geographically within the same species, a feature found in the communication of only a handful of species.

No you didn't.

​@@dukekhelawan3620 well the OP might be making stuff up, but there's a channel on a pittie named CZR (Caesar) who would respond to sign language and had a large vocab in that context. Another somewhat famous case (name escapes me) is that of a dog that could recall the names for a 100+ toys ...it's in an interview with Anderson Cooper if I recall. So dogs perhaps have considerable untapped potential if properly trained.

Yes great question! Birds definitely have very complex ways of communication. Calls and songs can express a a lot of information. I'm not very sure on rat communication but I know they are very emotionally aware animals!