Students discover chimpanzees make rhythmic sounds (despite limited sense of rhythm)

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Jan 17, 2025, 10:14 am118 pts
How can chimpanzees, so closely related to humans, have almost no sense of rhythm? Behavioral biologist Michelle Spierings and two students demonstrated that chimps can actually drum and move rhythmically—each following their own unique beat.

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