Young bats adopt a specific 'dialect' spoken by their own colonies, even when this dialect differs from the bat 'mother tongue,' a new study shows. By offering insight into the evolutionary origins of ...

In the aftermath of her passing, it was reported that Queen Elizabeth could speak the local dialect of Balmoral and the region around it. This dialect of the north-east of Scotland – called the Doric ...

Language learning app Duolingo has launched the beta version of its new Scottish Gaelic course, with more than 20,000 people already signed up. An endangered language, Scottish Gaelic is predominately ...

Things can get pretty loud in Egyptian fruit bat colonies. These highly social critters live in groups of up to 50,000 individuals—all clicking and chirping and squeaking. But as Jason Bittel reports ...

Young bats adopt a specific "dialect" spoken by their own colonies, even when this dialect differs from the bat "mother tongue," a new study publishing 31 October in the open access journal PLOS ...