BBC自然世界.语言大师

   非凡资源网 提供本片资源  　　Prairie dogs are America#39;s answer to the meerkat - small, sociable and excetionally cute. This offbeat film narrated by Rob Brydon takes us to the Wild West where rairie dogs live in huge colonies known as #39;towns#39;. Like meerkats, they are comical to watch, but there is a whole lot more to rairie dogs than just being cute - they can talk.br\　　For 30 years Professor Con Slobodchikoff has been recording their calls in resonse to redators like coyotes, hawks and badgers. He believes he has discovered a language second only to humans in its comlexity. It#39;s a bold claim but is he right? Con has devised a series of cunning field exeriments to hel rove his oint.