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Your auditory ticket to fun on the savanna. Vervets exhibit the most sophisticated "animal language" studied to date. Since 1977, when Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth began their pioneering work, more than ten putative "words"--used both as warning calls against specific predators and in social interaction--have been identified. Seyfarth writes, "Watching vervets grunt to each other is really very much like watching humans engaged in conversation without being able to hear what they're saying. There aren't any obvious reactions or replies to grunts, so the whole system seems very mysterious--mysterious, that is, until you start [recording them and] doing playbacks."
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