“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, ...

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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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sara Tabin is a science contributor writing about animals. In the 1987 film Three Men and a Baby, one of the men reads a graphic ...

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 ...

You know how scientists are always curious? Well, one scientist started wondering if bats do something that humans do. AHANA AURORA FERNANDEZ: When we humans talk to a baby, we automatically change ...

When addressing infants, human adults tend to change the speed, pitch and 'color' of their voice. This 'baby talk' is known to facilitate language learning. According to new research, it may not be ...

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 ...

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, ...

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