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Interspecies linguistics
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Only humans have language. Inter-species communication is nothing special. Rattlesnakes are named for their ability to communicate cross species.
They identified nouns and adjectives in prairie dog communication, that also seems to vary with regional dialects. I'll try to remember to dig up a source when I'm not out and about later.
Edit: here's a not fully scientific link, but has names and links for people who want to go deeper in the science while being a decent lay person's overview.
Yes, the blog name isn't very scientific looking (I have not read anything else on it). https://thehumanevolutionblog.com/2015/08/18/a-career-studying-the-sophisticated-vocabulary-of-prairie-dogs/
And here's a peer reviewed study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347205801174
I appreciate your disclaimers and context of your sources.