⏰ Tomorrow!

Dr. David Omer on how marmoset monkeys use calls to “name” each other 🐒🔊

📆 Sept 13 | 4pm GMT / 12pm EST / 9am PST | 📍Zoom
🔗 Register: https://shorturl.at/IjkHg

#PrimateCommunication #Neuroscience

👋 Meet our next speaker, neuroscientist Dr. David Omer!

His lab’s work with marmosets is changing how we understand communication, social behavior & the origins of language.

📆 Sept 13 | ⏰ 12pm EST / 9am PST | 📍Zoom
🔗 Register to join: https://shorturl.at/VPXvN

#Neuroscience #PrimateCommunication

New Lecture: The Naming of Nonhuman Primates 🐒🔊

Join us as Dr. David Omer reveals how marmoset monkeys use calls to “name” one another!

📆 Sept 13 | ⏰ 4pm GMT / 12pm EST / 9am PST | 📍Zoom
🔗 Register: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/david-omer

#PrimateCommunication

Chimpanzees pick up communication styles from their moms, not their dads New study reveals chimpanzees learn communication styles primarily from their mothers, not fathers. ...

New study reveals chimpanzees learn communication styles primarily from their mothers, not fathers. Researchers observed wild chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park. Findings published in PLOS Biology. #PrimateCommunication #News

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Why Humans Talk to Babies: The Evolutionary Puzzle of Infant-Directed Speech Among all great apes, only Homo sapiens showers its infants with babbling, cooing, and high-pitched “baby talk.” A new study shows just how rare—and recent—this trait may be.

Why do humans "baby talk"? A new study shows we're the only great ape that does so regularly—and it may have shaped the evolution of language. #PrimateCommunication #HumanEvolution #BabyTalk #Anthropology #Linguistics #CognitiveScience @carolinefryns.bsky.social @franziswegdell.bsky.social

Wild orangutans show communication complexity thought to be uniquely human Researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting a much older evolutionary origin.

I somehow doubt #Chomsky would be impressed by this evidence of #orangutan 'recursion'!

#primatecommunication #greatapes #alarmcalls

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/2505161...

OK this is great fun. #Chimpanzee drumming displays #rhythm -- the first time they seem to share roots of human #music

#primatecommunication #greatapes
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext...

The Linguistic Genius of Bonobos: How Our Primate Relatives Build Meaningful Call Combinations Bonobos Use Compositionality, Challenging Human Uniqueness.

Bonobos don’t just make calls—they combine them in ways that mirror human language. A new study suggests our primate relatives may share deep evolutionary roots of compositional speech. #LanguageEvolution #Bonobos #PrimateCommunication