Monkey facts will make you overwhelm for real. Actually, monkeys that you see every day are probably having the amazing vocal ability. It is still an assumption that, theoretically, the vocal channel of the monkeys could produce at least 5 sounds that indicated as the basic alphabet that also the basic of human’s language. Those sounds could be used in order to form sentences and the sentences can be understood as well!
The findings increase and complete the available evidences such as some monkeys and apes can imitate or produce certain words that needed to communicate like the real speaking words even though it is not as clear as human’s speech.
Based on Asif Ghazanfar from Princeton University, he said that there is no one that could talk about vocal anatomy of monkeys and apes. But basically they have certain vocal anatomy that is ready for talking but their brains are not. And the team needs to find out about why human’s brain is more ready than apes’ and monkeys’.
Experiment about monkey’s vocal equipment
Previously, there are several experiments in order to know these monkey facts. The experiments aimed to find out about monkey that has vocal equipment that needed to speak or talk. The experimental object is an alive-male macaque with long tail named Emiliano. By the help of barium substance, the scientists created the visual profile of Emiliano’s vocal channel when the monkey produced any kinds of sounds. By doing this experiment, the scientists succeeded to reconstruct the sound if Emiliano said a certain sentence like “Will you marry me?”
They also showed that Emiliano has the anatomic ability to form the 5 basic sounds that also the basic language of human. The persistence of the simulation ranges from 90 up to 98 percent. And by that, if monkey could talk then human can identify it too.
Still based on Ghazanfar, what they try to reveal is that vocal anatomy of monkeys and apes could create some conversations that can be understood by human. But still, the macaque does not have the brain that is ready to take care of that anatomy.
Other scientists also agree that the research add more evidences that monkeys have the equipment that could produce sounds like human. But still they do not have the brain that support to do that.
So, even though they can produce basic sounds, they cannot speak like human being based on the monkey facts.
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