{"id":7907,"date":"2012-12-12T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T23:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=7907"},"modified":"2013-01-11T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T22:01:10","slug":"new-book-explores-languages-of-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/new-book-explores-languages-of-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"New book explores languages of animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7909 alignright\" alt=\"Book cover\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-12-at-4.34.11-PM-211x300.png\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-12-at-4.34.11-PM-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-12-at-4.34.11-PM.png 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/>Con Slobodchikoff<\/b>, professor emeritus of biology, is known for interpreting the yips, barks and chirps of <a title=\"New prairie dog book promotes caring, conservation\" href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/new-prairie-dog-book-promotes-caring-conservation\/\">prairie dog populations<\/a>, and he recently expanded his animal vocabulary in his latest book, <i>Chasing Doctor Doolittle<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In his book, Slobodchikoff posits that animals communicate meaningful things to each other through language, such as how to locate food or to warn of impending danger. He recently discussed his latest book on the <em>Diane Rehm Show<\/em> on NPR<i>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Visit the show\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/thedianerehmshow.org\/shows\/2012-12-13\/con-slobodchikoffchasing-doctor-dolittle-learning-language-animals\">website<\/a> for information, or listen to the conversation <a href=\"http:\/\/thedianerehmshow.org\/shows\/2012-12-13\/con-slobodchikoffchasing-doctor-dolittle-learning-language-animals\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/new-book-explores-languages-of-animals\/\">Con Slobodchikoff, professor emeritus of biology, is known for interpreting the yips, barks and chirps of prairie dog populations, and he recently expanded his animal vocabulary in his latest book, Chasing Doctor Doolittle. In his book, Slobodchikoff posits that animals communicate meaningful things to each other through language, such as how to locate food or&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}