CHIMP TALK: New Study Suggests That Chimps Can Form Sound Sequences To Communicate New Meaning And Signal Threats

Image shows a wild chimpanzee in Uganda, undated photo. Swiss researchers from the city of Zurich showed that chimpanzees combine calls to communicate new meaning. Note: Licensed content. (Adrian Soldati/Newsflash) Image shows a wild chimpanzee in Uganda, undated photo. Swiss researchers from the city of Zurich showed that chimpanzees combine calls to communicate new meaning. Note: Licensed content. (Adrian Soldati/Newsflash)
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11 May 2023
A new study has suggested that people's closest-living relatives, chimps, can combine calls to communicate new meaning from the sequences in a similar way to when humans make sentences. Scientists from the University of Zurich (UZH), in Switzerland, discovered that chimpanzees in Uganda can...