“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, ...

Mark Stratton: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Mark Stratton. It was lights out, and the babies were up—again. Ahana Fernandez of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, pointed her ...

The babbling behavior of baby bats bears a striking likeness to babbling in human infants, according to a new study, which represents “the first formal analysis of bat pup babbling,” according to its ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Pups of the greater sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) develop their vocal skills by babbling in a similar way to human babies, a study shows. The research is the first to identify baby babble ...

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 ...

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 ...