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tenbatsu t1_isaqgfz wrote

Reply to comment by echoAwooo in Do crickets respond to TV’s and video audio, with their own sounds? by Bony_Geese

Same goes for naked mole rats! What’s more, when a colony’s queen is deposed and a new queen takes over, within the span of a few weeks the colony’s dialect will shift to match that of their new leader’s.

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FartIntoMyButt t1_isav0m4 wrote

Like that (unfortunately) apocryphal story about how the Spanish lisp came about!

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Bony_Geese OP t1_isb17p0 wrote

Oh, that’s cool, that’s another thing to add to the list of cool things about naked mole rats

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Not_as_witty_as_u t1_isce0v4 wrote

the coolest thing is they're naked and they're totally comfortable with it. It's like the 60's underground, man.

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