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You guys, I started watching this last night, and I highly recommend it. Stunning footage, a heartfelt and beautiful story, lots of animal behavior (and anthropomorphism). In addition to being relevant to our course, it was just lovely and felt like the antidote I needed.

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A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world. Watch trailers & learn more.

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Libellule resting beneath my lemon tree.

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Libellule resting beneath my lemon tree.

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I would like to share a photo I took in my backyard on Sunday, September 6th, with the weather being 107°F outside. Libellule (Dragonfly) resting beneath my lemon tree. It was such a beauty, it resembles such human characteristics. This is a perfect example of anthropomorphism, resembling a thin slender female. ~ Blake Deal

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bat-speak!

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Researchers say mother bats use baby talk to communicate with their pups. Experts say that it helps bats learn the language.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

You know how scientists are always curious? Well, one scientist started wondering if bats do something that humans do.

AHANA AURORA FERNANDEZ: When we humans talk to a baby, we automatically change our voices. Hello, my baby. You are so cute. My voice goes up.

SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:

That's Ahana Aurora Fernandez. She's in Berlin but did her bat study in Panama. And she found that, as many humans do, mommy bats talk to baby bats in a similar way. There's a word for this way of talking. It's motherese (ph). Experts say that in humans - and, apparently, also in bats - it helps with language learning.

KELLY: Ahana Fernandez sent us recordings she made to illustrate her findings. They are slowed down so we can better hear the differences between adult bats talking to each other and the motherese used on bat pups. First, here's two adult bats talking to each other.

(SOUNDBITE OF BATS SQUEAKING)

KELLY: OK, and now here's a mother bat with her pup.

(SOUNDBITE OF BAT SQUEAKING)

PFEIFFER: It took patience for Ahana Hernandez to record bat conversation. She sat in the jungle in a chair for hour after hour, waiting for bat conversations to happen. She even brought along books to pass the time. Scientific research is not always riveting.

KELLY: No. All told, Ahana Fernandez and her colleagues conducted their research for these last five years, and they found something else along the way. Baby bats babble.

FERNANDEZ: They use sort of a vocal practice behavior which is reminiscent of babbling in infants.

KELLY: Bat baby talk.

PFEIFFER: Her team's report was published this month, and it shows that in the first three months of life, these bat pups experiment with their speech.

FERNANDEZ: They learn a part of their adult vocal repertoire through vocal imitation as we humans do.

KELLY: Amazing and maybe proof that kids can drive you batty whether they're human or bat - like little bitty beautiful momma's sweet baby bats. (Kissing).

(SOUNDBITE OF ANDERSON .PAAK SONG, "TWILIGHT")

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Bats Use Baby Talk To Teach Their Pups, Researchers Say

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Researchers say mother bats use baby talk to communicate with their pups. Experts say that it helps bats learn the language. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: You know how scientists are always curious? Well, one scientist started wondering if bats do something that humans do.