RE: Confronting Friends and Family
November 14, 2012 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2012 at 4:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I geeked out about this years ago (I like to amuse my children imitating chimps and they like to amuse me right back...trick is to make sound on the in and out breaths...as opposed to our habit of producing sound on the out only).
This gentleman has made it his career to "understand" a variety of primates. There are some others, but I figured I;d throw him out there in case anyone was interested.
https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/e...0c85).html
(iirc, he doesn't consider their communication language either, but does pay special attention to how complex it can be. when you asked "how do we know" the answer would be, we observe)
This gentleman has made it his career to "understand" a variety of primates. There are some others, but I figured I;d throw him out there in case anyone was interested.
https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/e...0c85).html
(iirc, he doesn't consider their communication language either, but does pay special attention to how complex it can be. when you asked "how do we know" the answer would be, we observe)
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