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What language do bats speak? I’m trying to find out

Cesária Huó is collecting bat vocalizations to understand how the sounds they make evolve.
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    1. Tavares Cebola is a freelance writer in Maputo, Mozambique.

Cesaria Huo conducts fieldwork at the Botanic Garden in Maputo, Mozambique, which hosts a large bat population.

Cesária Huó is a conservation biologist at the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng for Nature

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“I am a conservation biologist at the Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique, where I focus on bats and their social vocalizations. In this photo, I’m photographing a colony of fruit-eating bats (Eidolon helvum) that live in the Tunduru Botanic Garden in the capital, Maputo.

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Nature 641, 814 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01469-2

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