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If Monkeys Could Talk...

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Monkeys and Apes Have Surprising Vocal Ability

Marmazett monkeys are on a totally different level though. These guys have wonderful control over their vocali the pit get louder because somebody's far away, they'll change the timing so that if you keep artificially cutting them off, they'll wait for the noise to go away. A lot of times, their calls don't have syllables. And that makes sense, because the macacs usually are just expressing emotion when they may make vocalizations.

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