#bat communication

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Bat Signals Addendum

If you listened to our episode about bat communication, you might want to read the actual science behind animals and animal communication. (And don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!)

Bats communicate (and argue) a lot (original article including supplementary information)

Prairie dogs communicate too

Alpha wolves don’t exist (in the wild)

Rats carry disease

Bats do too (but fewer types)

Carrie

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I am new to being a bat fan but i am having a great time. question: do bats nuzzle one another, similar to how cats do?

Welcome.

As far as I know, not really, but I couldn't find a definitive answer on the subject.

I did find a description of an interaction between Mexican free-tailed bats in an article from 2004 that mentioned one bat pushing another bat around with its head, so I would guess they might be able to nuzzle each other that way if they wanted to.

Article in question: https://www.batcon.org/article/bat-talk/

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alyb_batgirl on tiktok: "My favorite bat noises♥video from rehab bats last winter"

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Baby bats babble like human infants

Repeated vocalizations could help young bats to practise the sounds they will need as adults.

Human babies babble to practise speech sounds, which require precise motor control over their voice boxes, research suggests. Young songbirds also babble, but there are very few other recorded examples of babbling behaviour among animals — the bat research is the first to identify baby babble produced by a mammal that isn’t a primate. Like humans, bats need extraordinary control over their vocal apparatus, because they rely on their calls to navigate and find food through echolocation, and to communicate during courtship and mating, [says Ahana Fernandez, an animal behavioural ecologist at the Berlin Museum of Natural History and a co-author of the study, which was published on 19 August in Science].

Baby bats babble!!!

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