Baboons can recognize written words, study finds

The monkeys don't assign meaning to them, but learn what letter combinations are common to real words, the study authors say.Baboons don't read, don't speak and perhaps can't understand language at all. But scientists have found that they can learn to recognize writing on a computer screen, identifying correctly most of the time which combinations of letters are words ("done," "vast") and which are not ("telk," "virt").

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