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Mother Bats’ Hearts Respond to Their Own Pups’ Cries
Key Takeaways
- Researchers monitored mothers’ heart rates while playing recorded pup isolation calls.
- Mothers’ heart rates increased for calls from their own pups but not other pups.
- The calls are used early in life, before pups transition to echolocation and independent flight.
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DT Editorial Team··via phys.org