Just like their human neighbors, the rats of New York City have their own distinctive vocalizations, or “accent”, something ...

With roughly three million rats living in New York City, scientists set out to understand the daily lives—and speech patterns ...

A research team spent July recording rodent chatter with ultrasonic equipment in New York City’s most rat-infested neighborhood: Manhattan.

A new preprint field study reveals that New York City’s rats aren’t just survivors—they’re talkative city dwellers with their own hidden nightlife. Mapping their movements and conversations could offe ...

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Here in New York City, we humans crown ourselves rulers of the five boroughs—but the kingdom is split. A new field study ...

Rats can use the rhythm of human language to tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese, researchers in Spain reported Sunday. Their study suggests that animals, especially mammals, evolved some ...

Some converse in Creole, while others speak Scots, but it's not only humans who can be identified by the diversity of language they speak. Naked mole-rats have their own dialects, too. Shared dialect ...