Orangutan Whistles - First Ever Instance of An Ape Spontaneously Imitating a Human Vocalization

This is "the first-ever documentation of a primate mimicking a sound from another species without being specifically trained to do so. Bonnie, a 30-year-old female orangutan living at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., began whistling a sound that is in a human's, but not an orangutan's, repertoire after hearing an animal caretaker make the sound." For more, check out http://grandunifiedweekly.com/orangutan/

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• ape
• orangutan
• primate
• language

[GrandUnifiedWeekly]

True. Funny that the writer of the original release made the classic category error of not including humans in the group 'primate.'

[headshotplus50]

Now, they're bettering our vocalizations. Soon, our technology. Our weaponry. Our dominance.

[HelloWerldLawl]

It's only one pitch because animals don't have musical creativity, just another indication that they are souless shells. You can argue all you want but you must stop and analyze your arguement before you make it.

[Tom101229]

What is Ironic is that we were created to not allow that to happen. Ironic huh?

[WACHOOLOOKINGAT]

hmmmmmmmmm is it homo sapiens that are making all these beautiful animals extinct.........

[Xariabyron]

sound s like a theremin!

[Bueller007]

"the first-ever documentation of a primate mimicking a sound from another species without being specifically trained to do so."

Except for the primate we call Homo sapiens, that is.