Babbling Bats: Do pups talk baby talk as human infants do?

Young sac-winged bats jumble bits of adult-sounding calls into strings, say researchers who’ve recorded the babies’ vocalizations.

GOO GOO. A sac-winged bat pup makes a considerable variety of noises, but researchers suspect that it’s all nonsense. Knörnschild

The pups make these jumbled noises without the usual contexts, and that’s babbling, contends Oliver Behr of the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg in Germany.