A case of spontaneous acquisition of a human sound by an orangutan

@article{Wich2008ACO,  title={A case of spontaneous acquisition of a human sound by an orangutan},  author={Serge A. Wich and Karyl B. Swartz and Madeleine E Hardus and Adriano R. Lameira and Erin E. Stromberg and Robert W. Shumaker},  journal={Primates},  year={2008},  volume={50},  pages={56-64},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:708682}}
An orangutan has spontaneously (without any training) acquired a human whistle and can modulate the duration and number of whistles to copy a human model, indicating that the learning capacities of great apes in the auditory domain might be more flexible than hitherto assumed.

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