This story appears in the February 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. American Prairie Reserve is a conservation partner of the National Geographic Society’s Last Wild Places initiative.

If the criteria is referential signaling— specific sounds referring to specific objects or events—this ability has been seen in other animals, including vervet monkeys and prairie dogs.

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