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Orangutan Learns To Produce Human-Like Sounds
Patience may be a virtue, but Tilda, a female orangutan currently living in a German Zoo, would rather not wait to receive attention, and has started producing human-like vocalizations in order to be noticed by her keepers. That makes Tilda the first known wild-born orangutan to produce novel calls similar to those made by humans. Furthermore, her intriguing ability may help us understand more about the evolutionary origins of speech, which continues to elude researchers.
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I do wonder if their vocal chords could be tweaked to help them speak,but I doubt that is all it would take.