Australian scientists find bats have regional accents
SYDNEY (Reuters) – It’s not just people who have different accents but bats as well develop dialects depending on where they live which can help identify and protect different species, according to Australian scientists.
Researcher Brad Law of the Forest Science Center found that bats living in the forests along the east coast of the state of New South Wales had different calls.
He said scientists had long suspected bats had distinctive regional calls — as studies have shown with some other animals — but this was the first time it had been proven in the field.
(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith; Editing by Steve Addison)
Awwww look at that gorgeous little island down the bottom…..and for your info….we don't have the big bats down here on the island state….just those tiny little suckers…and I think they speak Chinese:)
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