With so many in a town, prairie dogs are well equipped to watch for their many predators. Their communication is well developed (4f9deb5d-29ed-4728-90d4-892e671bec3b)
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two prairie dogs in separate burrows keep watch for threats With so many in a town, prairie dogs are well equipped to watch for their many predators. Their communication is well developed and a prairie dog can communicate what type of predator, what direction the threat is moving, and even what color it is in just one tenth of a second. Keywords: prairie dog; black tailed prairie dog
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