Showing posts with label monkey dialects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monkey dialects. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Linguistic methods uncover sophisticated meanings, monkey dialects

Date:
December 15, 2014

Source:
New York University

Summary:
The same species of monkeys located in separate geographic regions use their alarm calls differently to warn of approaching predators, a linguistic analysis by a team of scientists reveals. The study reveals that monkey calls have a more sophisticated structure than was commonly thought.


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