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.

With their wrinkly skin and protruding front teeth, naked mole rats are some of the strangest looking creatures in the animal kingdom. Now, a new study has revealed that the weird animals also have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each colony of naked mole rats speaks its own unique dialect of chirps, a social feature that appears to be mediated by the colony’s queen and learned during adolescence, according to a study ...

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 ...

When two nearly blind naked mole rats encounter each other in a dark subterranean tunnel, it could be a friendly meeting or a moment of potential bloodshed between strangers. The creatures chirp to ...