Where: Tai forests of Ivory Coast
When: January 12, 2010
What and Why: Scientist believe that Diana monkeys in the Tai forests of the Ivory Coast have their own type of language. It was discovered before that monkeys have their own language, however, they can now decode it. Dr. Zuberbuhler reported that these monkeys can vary individual calls by adding suffixes. For example, "krak" means they see a leopard, their predator, coming but by adding "-oo" to the end of it to make "krak-oo" that means they have not seen the predator but heard others say the have. Some other "words" are "boom boom" which means I'm here, come to me, "boom boom krak-oo krack-oo" means a tree is falling and "pyow-hack" means let's get out of here in a hurry.
My Opinion: I think this is amazing. I never thought that monkeys actually had meaning to what they were saying, I thought they just called out random things. The way theses monkeys formulated their own kind of language makes me wonder if other animals have done the same.
I got my information from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/science/12monkey.html
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