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Newsday: Bonobos Apparently Communicate Like Human Babies

Bonobos Can Communicate Like Babies?

05/08/2015

Bonobos Apparently Communicate Like Human Babies

BBC World Service - Newsday, Bonobos Apparently Communicate Like Human Babies

Bonobo language, China anthem, Togo technology

Bonobo language, China anthem, Togo technology.

Bonobos apparently communicate in a very similar way to human babies, researchers say. The sounds they make may not be language exactly, but it parallels those sounds that human infants make to communicate before they learn to use words.

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(Photo: Bonobos in the wild. Credit: Zanna Clay/Lui Kotale Bonobo Project)

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