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Like humans, naked mole-rats have regional accents

Like humans, naked mole-rats have regional accents Rahul Rao © Provided by Popular Science The naked mole rat may be weird looking, but they re surprisingly complex creatures. If you want to see an elaborate animal society in action, look no further than the naked mole-rat. These pale wrinkly little rodents, indigenous to East Africa, live in underground colonies with rigid roles and elaborate social hierarchies under the stewardship of a queen. And each colony, researchers think, has its own accent. “We think that this vocal cue is maybe one way in which they can recognize who’s going to have access to the limited supply.and who might be trying to invade,” says Alison Barker, a neuroscientist at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany.

The queen sets the tone: Deciphering the dialects of naked mole-rats

The queen sets the tone: Deciphering the dialects of naked mole-rats by Romina Castagnino on 8 February 2021 Naked mole-rats have their own dialects that differ between colonies of the rodents, researchers have found. The virtually blind animals communicate underground through squeaks, grunts and chirps, and have an “accent” that is determined by the queen of each colony. This shared dialect “strengthens cohesion and a sense of belonging among the naked mole-rats of a specific colony,” says Alison Barker, lead author of the new study. The finding has important implications for the understanding of our own history, by potentially shedding light into how human linguistic culture evolved.

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