A new study out of the University of Torino recorded and analysed 590 ecstatic display songs from 28 adult African penguins in Italian zoos. Researchers found that the songs’ structure very closely imitated the structure of human language. The World’s Bianca Hillier shares what penguin’s communication could tell us about the entirety of language.
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