Whistling orangutan - first recorded instance

Bonnie's whistling is the "first-ever documentation of a primate mimicking a sound from another species without being specifically trained to do so [...] Being able to learn new sounds and use these voluntarily are also two important aspects of human speech and these findings open up new avenues to study certain aspects of human speech evolution in our closest relatives."

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