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Decoding bat talk
Bats are extremely social mammals, that live in colonies of thousands and sometimes millions, and they talk or “sing” to each other to communicate. Now, a group of scientists have studied vocalizations by Egyptian fruit bats and they found out that the calls contain information such as the identity of the caller as well as the context of the call.
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