The Madagascan primates have a highly unusual way of competing for territory, and now we know how they do it.
Lemurs are able to pretend to be much larger than they really are using only their voice, thanks to a special quirk of evolution, and scientists have discovered how they do it.These small primates, native to Madagascar, have a unique voice box structure that has a whole extra pair of vocal folds, allowing them to communicate using more complex noises, and increase the volume of their calls to feign being larger in size, according to a new study in the journal Scientific Reports.
They then created silicone models of the larynxes of lemurs, which they used to test their acoustic properties. The results showed that lemurs with these extra folds were able to call louder and include more complicated noises in these calls than those without.'Primates use varied vocal repertoires to communicate, and the larynx plays a key role in generating these calls,' study co-author Takeshi Nishimura, a professor at Kyoto University, said in the statement.
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