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Listen to an Australian duck say 鈥榶ou bloody fool鈥� like a human

When raised in captivity, musk ducks learn to copy the sounds of human life around them, which shows that they are what鈥檚 known as vocal language learners like parrots and humans

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Humans

Puzzle-solving great apes: The shared abilities underpinning language

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gorilla

Humans

Meet the puzzle-solving gorillas shedding light on how speech evolved

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tamarin

Life

Monkeys can change their accent to communicate with another species

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Technology

The way we use emojis evolves like language and changes their meaning

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Humans

The alphabet may have been invented 500 years earlier than we thought

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two people talking

Humans

Conversations go on too long because people are too polite to end them

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chimpanzee

Life

Chimpanzees seem to ‘speak’ in sentences of three or more calls

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orangutan

Life

Orangutans create new ways to communicate with each other in captivity

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man gesticulating

Humans

Using hand gestures when we talk influences what others hear

Similar words that have different meanings depending on the syllable stressed 鈥� like OBject and obJECT 鈥� are easier for a listener to distinguish if the speaker uses hand gestures

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Technology

Dr Dolittle machines: How AI is helping us talk to the animals

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Life

Baboons that live together in tight-knit groups have similar 鈥榓ccents鈥�

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Humans

‘Ums’ and ‘ers’ are a hidden code that helped complex language evolve

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Technology

In-ear nerve-stimulating device helps people learning a new language

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