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Well, ladies and gentlemen, yes, it's been a newsworthy week.

But something that perhaps escaped your attention, it had escaped mine until preparing for this program.

The bonobo, humanity's closest cousin, appears to communicate in a way scientists believed was

exclusive to humans. No, it's not swearing. Researchers from University of Zurich and Harvard, just before they

run out of money, said, like a week ago, the bonobos combined their vocalizations, their

peeps, grunts, whistles, and more.

Let's have more, shall we, bonobos?

To create complicated meanings.

Researchers said it's similar to the way humans string words together to make unique sentences,

or, in a case of a lot of humans these days, complete gibberish. This is a communication pattern known as non-trivial compositionality.

Researchers said it is widely used by bonobos.

Combining these words or vocalizations is an advanced feature of communications, creating

depth of meaning.

Whatever happened to that, research is published a new study in the peer-reviewed journal

science.

The journal silence would be a real addition to the literature.

The only other animal known to employ this kind of language pattern is us. In other words,

humans and bonobos can arrange their various calls to create unique and new complex meanings.

This is how humans create meaningful speech, or in the more recent examples, meaningless speech, combining words

into never-before-spoken sentences that anyone can understand.

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