Constantine Slobodchikoff

Constantine ‘Con’ Slobodchikoff is an animal behaviorist and conservation biologist. He is a professor at Northern Arizona University where he studies referential communication, using prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni) as a model species.  Much of his recent research has shown a complex communicative ability of the Gunnison prairie dog alarm calls.  In early 2008 he formed the Animal language Institute to create a place where people can […]

Lapine (Language)

Lapine, the language of rabbits, is introduced in Richard Adams classic adventure novel Watership Down, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. The fragments of language presented by Adams consist of a few dozen distinct words, and are chiefly used for the naming of rabbits, their mythological characters, and objects in their world. […]