Prairie dogs are America's answer to the meerkat - small, sociable and exceptionally cute. This offbeat film narrated by Rob Brydon takes us to the Wild West where prairie dogs live in huge colonies known as 'towns'. Like meerkats, they are comical to watch, but there is a whole lot more to prairie dogs than just being cute - they can talk.
For 30 years Professor Con Slobodchikoff has been recording their calls in response to predators like coyotes, hawks and badgers. He believes he has discovered a language second only to humans in its complexity. It's a bold claim but is he right? Con has devised a series of cunning field experiments to help prove his point.
Slab City 是南加州索诺兰沙漠中的一个无政府主义棚户区小镇。居民生活在电网之外。他们最近的邻居是美国海军和海军陆战队,他们在该地区进行空中轰炸和实弹射击。 Rob 讨厌咖啡——但每天早上 6 点起床,为他摇摇欲坠的网吧的顾客准备咖啡。 《沙漠咖啡》描绘了罗伯和他的朋友们温暖而亲密的肖像,他们是“美国最后一个自由之地”中一群丰富多彩、固执己见和困扰的人物。