Boom! Hok! A monkey language is deciphered
Dec 8th, 2009
From the New York Times: Boom! Hok! A Monkey Language Is Deciphered.
Krak krak! (Watch out, a leopard!)
Hok hok hok! (Hey, crowned eagle!)
Very good — you have already mastered half the basic vocabulary of the Campbell’s monkey, a fellow primate that lives in the forests of the Tai National Park in Ivory Coast. The adult males have six types of call, each with a specific meaning, but they can string two or more calls together into a message with a different meaning. [continue]