A team of scientists started out with a noble goal: making life more comfortable for monkeys living in a Finnish zoo by letting them control the music for the first time. But they walked away with a ...
In the experiment, monkeys engage with auditory stimuli—ranging from simple sounds to spoken words—by identifying and selecting the corresponding visual image on a touchscreen. During one trial, a ...
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Monkeys can tap to beat of human music, have ability to synchronize movement to rhythm
The findings suggest that, although monkeys do not experience music as fully as humans do and require substantial training, beat perception may span a broader evolutionary continuum than previously ...
Some monkeys have astounding vocal abilities; others not so much. NPR's Jon Hamilton explains why that could provide scientific clues about the origins of human speech. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR ...
Kari Bagnall–founder and executive director of Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary, which offers permanent care to nearly 200 monkeys retired from laboratory research, who are former pets, or have been ...
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