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Chimps Use a Very Specific Secret Language to Communicate With One Another
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1/23/2025
Chimpanzees have an intricate language system experts never thought possible.
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Chimpanzees are one of our closest biological cousins, but while we have an intricate system
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of vocal language, they're left with grunts and other simple vocalizations.
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Or are they?
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According to a new study of thousands of wild chimp recordings from along Africa's ivory
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coast, they might have a more complex language than previously thought.
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Researchers analyzed around 5,000 chimp recordings, consisting of over 900 hours of vocalizations,
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and they found some 390 distinct and unique vocalizations, which they say are much like
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sentences, pieced together from other vocalizations to create more complex meanings.
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology researcher Tatiana Bortolotto had this to
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say about the research.
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Our findings highlight a vocal communication system in chimpanzees that is much more complex
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and structured than previously thought.
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The 390 sentences were comprised of just 12 vocalizations, including grunts, barks, screams,
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with the researchers adding that this language goes well beyond what anyone thought possible
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within the non-human primate community.
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