Looking for in the web about animals’news I found in the National Geografic’website a news about monkeys. The article say about communication between mothers of Monkey Rhesus and theirs offspring. The female monkeys make vocalizations to get the attention of young monkeys. This behaviour is odd because the mothers use baby talk like the humans. Dario Maestripieri, a study co-author and scientist at the University of Chicago, say that the female monkey use a particular monkey sound, the “girney”, when the young monkeys are around. Also they wag their tails to the babies. Baby talk is use by people all over the world because babies respond to it. This vocalization doesn’t seem mean anything.
In the text also is mentioned another use to the sounds. The female use it with other infant than their own maybe like a grooming of social relationships. This was said by Lisa Parr of Yerkes National Primate Center at Atlanta's Emory University.
Well this investigation is an interesting topic of animal’behaviour and here you have the link http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070824-monkey-babytalk.html
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Dear George,
well done quite interesting topic.
A couple of things: remember that third person singular, the article SAYS or MENTIONES would be better. Do you usually check the natgeo website??
Could you tell me how "motherese" would be translated into Spanish??
regards,
paz
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