“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, ...

Before sunrise, Ahana Fernandez walks into a Costa Rican forest, carefully sets up her recording equipment near a grove of trees, and then waits. And watches. The trees are nurseries for the greater ...

Mother-pup pair of the greater sac-winged bat. The pup (dark fur color) is holding on to the mother´s belly (light fur color). Source: Michael Stifter, used with permission. When talking to babies, ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Saccopteryx bilineata is known as a communicative member of the sac-winged bat family. These animals use elaborate vocalizations as part of their mating rituals, and their vocal abilities start at a ...

Baby bats babble just like human infants when learning to communicate, a new study has found. Scientists from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin eavesdropped on 20 baby bats — called pups — and ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Mother-pup pair of the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Bats are right up there with snakes and spiders as animals to avoid, but there are more of them flying around in summer months, when baby bats (called pups) are learning to fly. So ...

The strong relationship formed between two female adult vampire bats may have motivated one of the bats to adopt the other’s baby. Elisabeth King Foster mother, BD, feeds her adopted vampire bat pup ...

Scientists were surprised to discover that at least one bat species carries its young to an unsupervised drop-off point night after night. By Elizabeth Preston A person trying to learn the way around ...

Ahana Aurora Fernandez does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Baby bats babble just like human infants when learning to communicate, a new study has found. Scientists from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin eavesdropped on 20 baby bats – called pups – and ...