Bat season is here, so don’t be shocked if the winged mammals appear in attics or if little ones learning to fly crash into picnic tables, low bushes, driveways or meet with other misfortune. “This ...

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Mother and pup of the bat species Saccopteryx bilineata. Similar to human infants, pups begin babbling at a young age as they develop language skills. Michael Stifter Ask any mother: babies babble. It ...

At least 65 million years of evolution separate humans and greater sac-winged bats, but these two mammals share a key feature of learning how to speak: babbling. “This is a hugely important step ...

When talking to babies, humans slow down their speech, raise their pitch and change the "color" of their voice. This "baby talk," as people know it, increases the infant's attention and facilitates ...

Human babies are not the only babblers, said a study published Thursday. Some bats are also very talkative in their infancy and even make sounds that recall the googoo-gagas of our own tots. Babbling ...

Any human mom can attest that keeping a baby fed and happy can be a Herculean task. That’s why some animal mothers have evolved some truly creative—and sometimes surprising—strategies. For instance, ...

Move over, early bloomers: baby bats might be the most precocious younglings of the animal kingdom. Researchers have found that, from day zero, newborn Egyptian fruit bats can use the built-in sonar ...

Spend any time around a baby and you're likely to hear some babbling. Now, new research shows baby bats can do it too. The researchers believe that bats and humans both evolved babbling as a precursor ...

Mother-pup pair of the greater sac-winged bat, Saccopteryx bilineata, in their daytime roost. The pup (dark fur color) is holding on to the mother´s belly (light fur color) In the 1987 film Three Men ...