I have experienced wild chipmunks using their "warning" sounds as a way to get my attention to open the sliding door and hand feed them. He would sit on the ledge of the door and look inside and if he saw me at my computer he would chirp at me and tap on the glass to get me to come open the door for him. So if they have the intuition to use their calls for other purposes, what other reasons besides predators are they using calls for. Chipmunks are just amazing little creatures that are often overlooked because rodents are seen as pests.
Seems very logic for something social, like trees or animals or machines that have to work together ...to have a language........how would work it otherwise ? evolve ? survive ? passing on information is like a.....super existential trait.
@@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.
I must have missed if he explained how a prairie dog can speak of color. I'm not even sure scientists have studied the species with regards to color sight. Anybody know???
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.
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!
The more you know, the blurrier the line gets between an animal and a thinking person. And that has the potential for darkness and cruelty to a very disturbing degree.
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.
So cool. I'm grateful for his work and this interview. It's so disturbing how humans diminish the significance of others.
This is so interesting and cool! Thank you for posting this so that more people can learn about the complexities of Prarie dogs.
Great to hear from him directly on so many of these outlets, thanks!
I have experienced wild chipmunks using their "warning" sounds as a way to get my attention to open the sliding door and hand feed them. He would sit on the ledge of the door and look inside and if he saw me at my computer he would chirp at me and tap on the glass to get me to come open the door for him. So if they have the intuition to use their calls for other purposes, what other reasons besides predators are they using calls for. Chipmunks are just amazing little creatures that are often overlooked because rodents are seen as pests.
Awesome interview, thanks!
Seems very logic for something social, like trees or animals or machines that have to work together ...to have a language........how would work it otherwise ? evolve ? survive ? passing on information is like a.....super existential trait.
They are smart lovely fiesty
I taught my pitbull voice commands, sign language and facial feature commands. It pretty much new three different languages
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.
I must have missed if he explained how a prairie dog can speak of color. I'm not even sure scientists have studied the species with regards to color sight. Anybody know???
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.
Don't birds do the same like sea gulls, crows and rats ?
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!
But can they order door dash?
The more you know, the blurrier the line gets between an animal and a thinking person. And that has the potential for darkness and cruelty to a very disturbing degree.
Can you explain more about that?
From this video i do not get the impression that much of the prairie dog's language has been described. Or that it exists beyond any doubt.
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.