[HN Gopher] Bats Love To Babble, Just Like Humans
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       Bats Love To Babble, Just Like Humans
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2021-08-20 10:20 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | frizdabble wrote:
       | If you have listened to kittens they mew for the sake of it,
       | essentially babbling ... think this is more widespread then the
       | article illustrates
        
         | lobo_tuerto wrote:
         | Like these two?
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         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974
        
         | bbarnett wrote:
         | Young covids (crows, jays) make lots of small, non-call type
         | noises too.
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         | Maybe it's just about learning to effectively use the voice?
        
           | goda90 wrote:
           | It's actually "corvids". This pandemic certainly has trained
           | our fingers to type "covid" a lot.
        
             | s5300 wrote:
             | I think it may actually be autocorrect.
             | 
             | Autocorrect definitely puts "corvids" to "covid" on my
             | phone, unsure of current android/google keyboard version
             | running.
        
             | cockmaster3k wrote:
             | ... but ... but I thought covid came from a bat and not the
             | bat lady? Fauci said so!
        
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