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Sociality predicts orangutan vocal phenotype.
Nature ecology & evolution - 1 May 2022
Lameira Adriano R, Santamaría-Bonfil Guillermo, Galeone Deborah, Gamba Marco, Hardus Madeleine E, Knott Cheryl D, Morrogh-Bernard Helen, Nowak Matthew G, Campbell-Smith Gail, Wich Serge A
Abstract excerpt
In humans, individuals' social setting determines which and how language is acquired. Social seclusion experiments show that sociality also guides vocal development in songbirds and marmoset monkeys, but absence of similar great ape data has been interpreted as support to saltational notions for language origin, even if such laboratorial protocols are unethical with great apes. Here we characterize the repertoire...
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