• Baby crocodiles chat to each other inside their eggs 'to synchronise hatching' | Mail Online
  Baby crocodiles chat to each other inside their eggs 'to synchronise hatching' By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:08 PM on 24th June 2008 * commentsComments (0) * Add to My Stories Add to My Stories Baby crocodiles start chatting to one another and to their mothers just before they hatch, researchers say. The little reptiles make an 'umph! umph! umph!' noise and scientists believe they are signalling they are ready to be born. "Crocodile mothers react strongly to playback of pre-hatching calls, most of them by digging the sand," Amelie Vergne and Nicolas Mathevon wrote in the journal Current Biology. Crocodiles Crocodiles signal to each other just before they hatch The researchers tested 10 crocodiles and their eggs, recording the sounds the b
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