Linguistic methods uncover sophisticated meanings, monkey dialects

Monday, December 15, 2014 - 12:31 in Biology & Nature

The same species of monkeys located in separate geographic regions use their alarm calls differently to warn of approaching predators, a linguistic analysis by a team of scientists reveals. The study, which appears in the journal Linguistics and Philosophy, reveals that monkey calls have a more sophisticated structure than was commonly thought.

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