Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>"Researchers ‘Translate’ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bat</span></a> Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—a Lot"</p><p>AKA, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bats</span></a> are just like us:</p><p>"One of the call types indicates the bats are arguing about food.</p><p>Another indicates a dispute about their positions within the sleeping cluster.</p><p>A third call is reserved for males making unwanted mating advances</p><p>and the fourth happens when a bat argues with another bat sitting too close"</p><p>food, hierarchy, sex, and autonomy</p><p>the endless squabble</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-translate-bat-talk-and-they-argue-lot-180961564/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/</span><span class="invisible">researchers-translate-bat-talk-and-they-argue-lot-180961564/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zoology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethology</span></a></p>