Communicative creatures (IMAGE)

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association

Communicative creatures

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Naked mole-rats are very communicative creatures, they quietly chirp, squeak, twitter or even grunt to one another. The scientists wanted to find out whether these vocalizations have a social function for the animals.

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Felix Petermann, MDC

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