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SUBMITTER: Torti V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5579264 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Torti Valeria V Bonadonna Giovanna G De Gregorio Chiara C Valente Daria D Randrianarison Rose Marie RM Friard Olivier O Pozzi Luca L Gamba Marco M Giacoma Cristina C
Scientific reports 20170831 1
The increasing interest in the evolution of human language has led several fields of research to focus on primate vocal communication. The 'singing primates', which produce elaborated and complex sequences of vocalizations, are of particular interest for this topic. Indris (Indri indri) are the only singing lemurs and emit songs whose most distinctive portions are "descending phrases" consisting of 2-5 units. We examined how the structure of the indris' phrases varied with genetic relatedness am ...[more]