How to speak monkey: The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage
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The cotton-top tamarin is a very vocal monkey -- the species communicates
using a sophisticated language of 38 distinct and grammatically
structured calls! Anne Savage teaches a few of these chirps and
whistles, taking us through a day in the life of Shakira the tamarin
(using sounds pulled from the wild) as Shakira signals to her family,
talks to her food and warns against potential predators.
Cotton-top tamarins use vocalizations in a variety of contexts. Can you describe a situation in which a cotton-top tamarin uses a vocalization to communicate information to another tamarin?
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- Educator Anne Savage
- Director Avi Ofer
- Narrator Addison Anderson
