Tracking with Tracker
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Tracker the Coyote leads Martin and Aviva to Koki's location in a prairie dog town.
Tracker the Coyote leads Martin and Aviva to Koki's location in a prairie dog town.
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Tracking with Tracker
Clip | 1m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
Tracker the Coyote leads Martin and Aviva to Koki's location in a prairie dog town.
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(Gasping) Whoa!
AVIVA: Look at all those little ground squirrels!
You're right Aviva, they are a kind of ground squirrel.
Popular name: prairie dog.
One of the largest ground squirrels in North America.
A prairie dog town can be huge!
The biggest one ever was 25,000 square miles wide and home to 400 million prairie dogs.
That's a lot of meals for a coyote.
Hey, where is our coyote?
I don't know.
He was here just a minute ago.
(Squeaking) Do you hear that?
(Squeaking) That's the jump-yip, a prairie dog's warning call.
So that means...
There!
Wait, that's not a coyote.
That's a... Koki!
(Squeaking) Yip!
AVIVA: What's she doing?
A jump-yip.
But I have no idea why.
AVIVA: All the prairie dogs are wondering too.
(Squeaking) Yip!
MARTIN: There's Tracker!
See how smart coyotes are?
He's using Koki as a decoy.
While all the prairie dogs are distracted by Koki, our coyote is sneaking up-- on lunch.
(Squealing) (Squeaking) (Squeaking excitedly) (Gasping) Koki!
What were you doing?
Koki.
I was in some kind of prairie-dog trance.
It was like those sounds...
The jump-yips?
Yeah-- were contagious.
I couldn't stop jump-yipping.
Ahhh... Let's get out of here before they start jump-yipping again.
Huh?
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