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posted by martyb on Tuesday December 13 2016, @02:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the Hey!-Hey!-We're-the-Monkees! dept.

A talking monkey seems like a thing of science-fiction, cartoons, and goofy advertisements. But new research suggests monkey speech may be closer to reality than commonly thought.

Macaques actually have vocal anatomy capable of human-like speech, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science Advances. 

"This suggests that what makes people unique among primates is our ability to control the vocal apparatus, not the apparatus itself," Thore Jon Bergman, an evolutionary biopsychologist at the University of Michigan who was not part of the research, writes in an email to The Christian Science Monitor.

Talking monkeys is the stuff of nightmares.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday December 13 2016, @06:09PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday December 13 2016, @06:09PM (#440894)

    Given humans' standard motivations, you'd think they'd notice the tail thing...

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