the hiiden lives of mole rats
Friend or Foe? Naked Mole Rats Can Tell By A Unique Squeak
What sounds like a large study found that different colonies had different "languages". They are almost blind and live in underground colonies and when one bumps into another in a tunnel, which is frequent, they make a particular bird-like squeak, and it turns out that different colonies make different sounds then. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...-unique-squeak Making the wrong sound makes the other one an alien and they will fight.... Interrupted for dinner and I don't remember the other interesting things. The text has parts I don't remember from the audio, but wthout the audio you can't hear what they sound like. Each colony has a queen and when she dies there is chaos until another queen is established. The researchers thought she ruled the place, another example of SWMBO. A lot more info about them. https://www.google.com/search?client...naked+mole+rat |
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