Chimpanzees ‘talk’ just like humans. It’s time to realise how similar we are | Jules Howard
New research shows that gestures used by chimpanzees follow the same rules as human language. Are we really so different?
It’s a bit garbled but you can definitely hear it in the mobile phone footage. As the chimpanzees arrange their branches into a makeshift ladder and one of them makes its , some words ring out loud and clear: “Don’t escape, you bad little gorilla!” a child onlooker shouts from the crowd. And … POP … with that a tiny explosion goes off inside my head. Something knocks me back about this sentence.
