Egyptian fruit bat (IMAGE)

Carnegie Mellon University

Egyptian fruit bat

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The vocalizations of humans, bats, whales, seals and songbirds vastly differ from each other. But CMU and UC Berkeley researchers have found parts of the genome that have evolved and are associated with vocal learning across mammals.

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University of California, Berkeley

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