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World Service,2 mins

Do chimps use language?

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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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