Like football fans at a stadium, black-tailed prairie dogs also do the wave.
A study published last month , which researchers call a 鈥渏ump-yip,鈥 not to cheer on a favorite team, but rather to avoid being eaten.
In fact, they鈥檙e testing the watchfulness of their neighbors. Alert prairie dogs will catch the wave, pass it through the colony, and hopefully live to dance another day.聽