This Is Just Cool

What's most interesting about this is that, independantly, different animals in different colonies that had never "met" each other, when shown a new object, came up with the same sound for that object.

That certainly sounds like some kind of basic language, doesn't it? As in they put together sounds for "black, oval, shape that moves" or "small furry animal that looks a bit like a long skinny one of us."

Read the article, it's pretty cool.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1894&e=5&u=/ap/20041204/ap_on_sc/prairie_dog_chatter