Banded mongooses structure monosyllabic sounds in a similar way to humans
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 11:32
in Biology & Nature
Animals are more eloquent than previously assumed. Even the monosyllabic call of the banded mongoose is structured and thus comparable with the vowel and consonant system of human speech. Behavioral biologists from the University of Zurich have thus become the first to demonstrate that animals communicate with even smaller sound units than syllables.