Sometimes humans think we are the only ones who do certain things, and many times animals surprise us with behaviors that are very own to ours. It seems that the language of gu-gu-ta-ta is not exclusive to people either.
Thanks to a study by researchers at the University of Chicago, we know that at least one adult female from a group of rhesus macaques living in Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico they also use grunts and babbles to communicate with their babies.
They observed that they use a special language of twittering and vocalizations that increase markedly when their young are close.
They are very loud, very nasal and melodic sounds that adults use exclusively to communicate with the babies of the group.
Mothers also usually move the tail vigorously, as if it were a rattle to entertain their babies and stimulate them.
A researcher points out that sounds do not contain information, but that "it is only an acoustic structure designed to attract children that may have a direct impact on their nervous system or to provoke a learning response."
It is impossible to try to make a literal translation of the language among monkeys, because it does not exist ...
We already see that regardless of the animal we are or the language we speak, there is a melodious and pleasant univeral language in the ears of babies that mothers use to communicate with our babies, and that experts point out, could have a biological origin.
