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How Baby Bats Learn to Speak Dialects | Nat Geo Wild
Scientists recently studied whether Egyptian fruit bats learn to “speak” from their mothers or from their colonies. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe About Nat Geo Wild: Welcome to a place so wild, anything can happen. Nat Geo Wild is the network all about animals from National Geographic, where every story is an adventure and your imagination is allowed to run wild. Get More Nat Geo Wild: Official Site: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILD Facebook: http://bit.ly/NGWFacebook Twitter: http://bit.ly/NGWTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/NGWInstagram They raised baby bats in captivity with their mothers and exposed the babies to three types of sounds. One group heard vocalizations from a real colony. A second heard manipulated sounds that were higher pitched than usual colony sounds. A third heard unusually low-pitched sounds. At six months old, the pups began to communicate in the "dialect" they were exposed to—suggesting a bat's “speech” is influenced more by its colony than its mother. Read more about bat communication: http://ift.tt/2iSxAeE How Baby Bats Learn to Speak Dialects | Nat Geo Wild https://youtu.be/O3n_3XH5-A4 Nat Geo Wild https://www.youtube.com/user/NatGeoWild

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