Syntax from simians?

• Position: ZOOLOGY - Brief article

Many animal species make individual sounds with specific meanings. But the Campbell's monkey, which rives in the forests of Tai National Park in Ivory Coast, combines two or more of its six basic carts into different messages. Researchers who spent months recording the monkeys" calls say the animals have a primitive form of syntax--combining words into sentences. The researchers, led by Klaus Zuberbuhler from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, figured out that krak-oo is a predator warning and boom-boom means "'Come here!" But boom-boom krak-oo...