A grassland bird eavesdrops on prairie dog calls to keep itself safe from predators
WASHINGTON — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air.
'Prairie dogs are on the menu for just about every predator you can think of'— golden eagles , red-tailed hawks, foxes, badgers, even large snakes — said Andy Boyce, a research ecologist in Montana at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
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