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	Podcast:		Short Wave
	Episode:		SURPRISE! It's A...Babbling Baby Bat?
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:08:19
	Publish Date:		2021-10-01 04:30:00
	Description:		A paper published recently in the journal Science finds similarities between the babbling of human infants and the babbling of the greater sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) — a small species of bat that lives in Central and South America. As science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel reports, the researchers believe both bats and humans evolved babbling as a precursor to more complex vocal behavior like singing, or, in the case of people, talking. Wondering what similarities humans have to other animals? Email the human animals at shortwave@npr.org. We might dig up some answers.
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