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World Service,3 mins

The Woman Who Can Sing Gibbon

Newsday

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The evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin talked about gibbons singing, and how similar the song is to human language. Well, Dr Angela Dassow from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is an expert in gibbon-speak. Nuala McGovern also spoke to Professor Michael Coen from the same US university. Photo: Thinkstock

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