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Do chimps use language?
Like us, chimpanzees produce vocalisations. But Dr Catherine Hobaiter, a primatologist at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, explains why their use of gestures is their most language-like system of communication.
(Image: Chimpanzee, Credit: BBC.)
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