Gorilla's Hum Is a Do-Not-Disturb Sign
Science Talk
Scientific American
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🗓️ 29 February 2016
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:33.6 | This is a short edition of Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American, for February 29th, 2016. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Steve Murski. |
| 0:45.7 | Dolby Sound in a theater showing Jurassic World? |
| 0:50.8 | The engine of a fat boy Harley Davidson. |
| 0:55.9 | What it really is is a gorilla, a male gorilla humming in the middle of a meal. |
| 1:01.2 | We know from studies on chimpanzees and bonobos that great apes produce certain vocalization |
| 1:06.2 | while they're feeding, so-called food-associated calls. |
| 1:10.1 | And our study wanted to investigate |
| 1:11.8 | whether gorillas do the same. Eva Lueff with the Max Planck Institute in Germany. |
| 1:17.0 | Our study focused on food calls of guerrillas in the Republic of Congo in the Cheka Triangle. |
| 1:21.8 | There are two habituated guerrilla groups, which means, habituated means that they're used to humans |
| 1:26.5 | around them. Tourists come there and researchers can get as close as seven meters to the gorillas. |
| 1:32.3 | This allowed us to record quiet vocalizations that the gorillas produce. |
| 1:36.3 | So we recorded the food call of two habituated gorilla groups, |
| 1:39.3 | and we found that they produced two distinct vocalizations during feeding. |
| 1:43.3 | They're termed humming |
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