Population-specific call order in chimpanzee greeting vocal sequences

Summary: Primates rarely learn new vocalizations, but they can learn to use their vocalizations in different contexts. Such “vocal usage learning,” particularly in vocal sequences, is a hallmark of human language, but remains understudied in non-human primates. We assess usage learning in four wild...

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Main Authors: Cédric Girard-Buttoz, Tatiana Bortolato, Marion Laporte, Mathilde Grampp, Klaus Zuberbühler, Roman M. Wittig, Catherine Crockford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222011233