The unexpected rhythm of macaque monkey skills raise fresh questions about where our own sense of beat comes from.
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These Monkeys Learned to Tap to the Beat of the Backstreet Boys. Can They Teach Researchers About the Origins of Human Musicality?
With a bit of training, monkeys can learn to tap along to the beat of music. The findings, published November 27 in the ...
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Monkeys have rhythm and can tap along to the beat (with a little help from the Backstreet Boys)
They may not yet be kings of the swingers, but macaque monkeys can keep time to music and move to the beat. Well, at least ...
A team of scientists started out with a noble goal: making life more comfortable for monkeys living in a Finnish zoo by letting them control the music for the first time. But they walked away with a ...
Some monkeys have astounding vocal abilities; others not so much. NPR's Jon Hamilton explains why that could provide scientific clues about the origins of human speech. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR ...
The words "dog" and "fog" sound pretty similar. Yet even a preschooler knows whether you're talking about a puppy or the weather. Now scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, ...
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