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 ...

While the babbling behavior of these bats has been likened to human infant babbling, babbling behavior in bats lacks formal evaluation. Ahana Fernandez and colleagues investigated the babbling ...

Pups of the greater sac-winged bat develop their vocal skills by babbling in a similar way to human babies — a discovery that could help researchers to explore the underlying neuroscience of how ...

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 ...

“Mamama,” “dadada,” “bababa” – parents usually welcome with enthusiasm the sounds of a baby’s babble. Babbling is the first milestone when learning to speak. All typically developing infants babble, ...

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 ...

Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 March 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Prat at Tel Aviv University in ...