Daniel Blumstein

As do vervet monkeys.

Vervet monkeys are pretty cool.

As do chickens.

As do a lot of, some species, not all.

Some primates, not all primates, have word-like communication for different sorts of predators.

They may label them.

But they communicate a lot of different, risk a lot of different ways.

The Vancouver Island marmot almost went extinct, down to less than 50 in captivity, now up to about 30.

300 and something, 400 and something in the wild.

Oh, wow.

Major and ongoing conservation work trying to keep those guys alive.

Had five different alarm calls.

And not only that, they probably had simple syntax in that when I did playbacks where I would vary the order of calls, they responded differently.

No.

So who knows?

Almost one extinct.

We almost lost knowledge of language there.

by losing the Vancouver Island marmot, which looks like a bear cub and is absolutely adorable.

A combination of high alpine logging, which, so they only live on Vancouver Island, high alpine logging seemingly brought them down to suboptimal habitat and associated with the logging roads, Vancouver Island has a remarkably rich wolf and cougar population.

Mm-hmm.