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Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans
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perestroika slrpnk.net perestroika@slrpnk.net
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Study of the calls that bonobos use to communicate indicates that their vocal system shows both trivial and non-trivial compositionality, the latter previously thought to occur only in human languages.

(Note: since The Guardian messed up their link to the research paper, I'm providing it here: Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos.)

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