'This discovery highlights the complexity of social communication among marmosets,' researcher David Omer said.
Marmosets may have more sophisticated communication than we first thought, with individuals even having names.The monkeys have been observed using special vocal calls, dubbed 'phee calls,' to identify one another in communication, according to a new paper in the journal Science.This discovery places monkeys among the scant ranks of species known to use names, which until now only included humans, dolphins and elephants.
'We observed that monkeys from the same family group tend to use similar calls to vocally label others and use similar acoustic features to encode the identity of others. Additionally, family members' calls addressing the same receivers were significantly more similar than calls addressing different receivers,' the researchers wrote.
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