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 […]