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Thursday, January 28, 2021

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany - Naked mole rats speak in dialect [Phys.org, 28 January 2021]

Title:
Naked mole rats speak in dialect
 
By:
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Published:
Phys.org, 28 January 2021

From the article:
Some people converse in Creole, while others speak Scots, but it's not only humans who can be identified by the diversity of language they speak. Naked mole-rats have their own dialects, too. Shared dialect also strengthens cohesion within a colony, a team led by MDC researcher Gary Lewin reports in Science.