Over millions of years, naked mole-rats have cast away everything underground which uses their energy and isn’t necessary to survive. They hypothesized the chirps might serve a social function.

When one naked mole-rat encounters another, the accent of their chirps might reveal whether they’re friends or foes. These social rodents are famous for their wrinkly, hairless appearance. But hang ...

Akin to a regional accent or dialect in human language, highly social naked mole-rats form distinctive and unique colony-specific chirps, which convey information about an individual's social ...

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 ...

A new study shows that naked mole rats speak with distinct dialects that appear to be learned — and reveal what group they belong to. Friend Or Foe? Naked Mole Rats Can Tell By A Unique Squeak When ...