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SUBMITTER: Levrero F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6346008 | biostudies-other | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Levréro Florence F Touitou Sonia S Frédet Julia J Nairaud Baptiste B Guéry Jean-Pascal JP Lemasson Alban A
Scientific reports 20190124 1
The origin of human speech is still a hotly debated topic in science. Evidence of socially-guided acoustic flexibility and proto-conversational rules has been found in several monkey species, but is lacking in social and cooperative great apes. Here we investigated spontaneous vocal interactions within a peaceful context in captive bonobos to reveal that vocal interactions obey temporally and social rules. Dyadic vocal interactions were characterized by call overlap avoidance and short inter-cal ...[more]