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| Lady with Baby Gorilla |
The BBC reports today that gorilla mothers use a special type of 'baby talk' when communicating with their infants. Analysing hours of video footage, a team of scientists found that parents augmented their wide repertoire of communication gestures with repetition and increased tactility when talking to young gorillas.
A video on the BBC website shows a mother repeatedly laying her hand on her child's head, in a bid to tell her infant to "stop it", researchers say. It is thought that these observations may give us insight into how human language developed.
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