Gibbon Language Decoded

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tragong via shutterstock. It turns out lar gibbons have a complex, context-specific language in their whispers, which until now has been overlooked due to their loud calls.

If you think learning another human language lacks ambition, now is your chance to learn gibbon. A new paper in BMC Evolutionary Biology reveals the basics of gibbon language. Better still, this is an open access journal so all the information you need is ready and waiting.