Scientists are going bananas.
reports that chimpanzees “are capable of” producing sounds that mimic words they hear from people. It follows recent research revealing thatThe new research looked at two archived videos of chimps “uttering” words on camera — one clip from the mid-2000s and another from the 1960s.In both cases, the apes uttered the word “mama” when given cues from their handlers. It defies previous beliefs that speech was beyond chimpanzees’ “neural circuitry,” researchers noted.
Both cases in which the chimps “possessed the necessary control” for human-like speech are a demonstration that primates can shift their speech and jaw muscles for consonant and vowel sounds, scientists noted. There
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