Can Monkeys Talk? - Robert Seyfarth, RDF TV

Robert Seyfarth describes how monkey calls used by Vervet Monkeys might be precursors to language.

To read more about language in monkeys (and chimps

Comment by caleb daniel on May 25, 2010 at 4:19pm
There are more than enough people who would argue otherwise. So, yes, it is good to document it.

I also saw somewhere that they have watched a species of monkey that, over the last few years, learned how to use a stick as a hunting tool. The species had never used the tool in the 50 years they had been studying it. So, it is interesting to watch them evolve, if only on a small scale.

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