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Monkeys from West Africa learned to communicate using of at least six basic words: boom-boom, krak, crack-oo, hawk, hawk-oo and wak-oo.
According to the results of a new study that was recently published, the key to understanding monkey language is “oo.” Using this ending, the monkeys managed to create amazing rich vocabulary, which is periodically used not only their fellow tribesmen, but also other species of monkeys? living Next door.
Researchers have previously confirmed that some monkeys have their own language that they understand. TO for example, the word “crack” helps warn fellow humans about the appearance of leopard, and the word “krak-oo” warns of other types of threats, for example, about falling branches. “Boom-boom-Krak-oo” can be approximately translate as, “Watch out! Branches are falling from above!”
Some aspects of the communication of these monkeys allow parallels with the human language. For more thorough research At this point, experts conducted an experiment in which not only representatives of the talking species are involved, but also individuals of other related species of monkeys. The result of the experiment showed that the latter not only understood the voiced signals talking species, but also reacted in a predictable way.
Namely, hearing, for example, the word “crack”, the monkeys behaved as if they saw an approaching leopard. In addition to the word “crack” has other root combinations “boom”, “hawk” and “vak”. “Boom” means falling branches, “hawk” means a bird of prey, and here the meaning of the word “vak” has not yet been fully determined. Word data monkeys, if necessary, add the suffix “oo”, from which the meaning itself changes. The word “hawk” itself, as already said, means a bird of prey, but the phrase “boom boom hok-oo-oo hok “means the approval of the territory.
During the time that researchers studied the “language” of monkeys, as well as guessed the notation for related words, they identified several components that allow for parallels between human communication and primate communication.
Firstly, these monkeys not only know how, but also love to lead between conversations. That is, monkeys, like people, not only like share information, but just chat. Secondly, there is evidence of “vocal convergence” – the development of one’s own adverbs in monkeys that have a strong relationship with each other. In addition, the meaning of words in monkeys is interpreted differently not only when adding a suffix, it also depends on the intonation of the voice. By the way it would be very interesting to see how a person is talking with a monkey.
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