Southeastern Asian forests harbor a small-bodied line of apes, known as gibbons, that sing like rainforest Pavarottis. These animals’ full-throated refrains reverberate through dense vegetation.
SOCIAL SINGER. A new study suggests that gibbons in Thailand, such as the one shown here, communicate by rearranging tunes that they croon.
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