What It Sounds Like When Bats Bicker

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

Egyptian fruit bats are known to make a lot of noise while they’re roosting. Scientists at Tel Aviv University have determined that a lot of that noise is bats getting annoyed at other bats. Plus: scientists studying endangered bats in Cuba tag them in a very fancy way, with little bat-manicures!

Study of bat vocalizations shows they are communicating with one another (Phys.org)

Scientists Gave One of the World’s Rarest Bats a Manicure to Help Save It (Earther)

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