草原犬鼠

“似犬动物，如草原犬鼠。”

" Any of various other animals , such as the prairie dog . "

鸟和草原犬鼠一种生活在地洞中的动物也没有食物吃。

There was less food for birds and also for the prairie dog , a kind of animal which lives in holes in the ground .

金花鼠和草原犬鼠都属于松鼠类动物。

Chipmunks and prairie dogs are kinds of squirrels .

而你们中可能有人不知道，草原犬鼠实际上不是狗，

And for those of you who don 't know , prairie dogs are not actually dogs .

草原犬鼠和许多地松鼠不一样，群居在西部大草原的大地洞中。

Prairie dogs , unlike many ground squirrels , live together in big burrows on the western prairies .

因此一只草原犬鼠会发出表示草原狼和大只的信号，而还有另一个信号，表示其靠近速度有多快。

So the prairie dog makes a call that means coyote , then one that means large , and then another one to indicate its speed .

草原犬鼠也许能够跟你说你的上空有一只老鹰正在盘旋，但是他们从来没有能够描述上周看到的东西。

Prairie dogs may be able to tell you about a hawk at circling over head right now , but they never show any inclination to describe the one they saw last week .

而也许你会说草原犬鼠发出的信息是来自更小部分的信息，比如，草原犬鼠发现捕猎者，一只草原狼正在迅速靠近。

Now maybe you could say that the prairie dog 's message is built from smaller parts , like say for example , our prairie dogs spot a predator , a big coyote approaching rapidly .

就像我去年在生物课上说到的，我记得当时讲到一次关于草原犬鼠的研究。我想研究人员宣称草原犬鼠发出的警告声构成了语言，因为它们这种不同的说话的能力。

I mean I mention this cause like in my biology class last year , I kind of remember talking about a study on prairie dogs , where , I think the researchers claimed that the warning cries of prairie dogs constitute language , because they have this , different parts of speech .