Not only people have a sense of rhythm, but also chimpanzees drums. Depending on the region, the monkeys even have different preferences in the drumed rhythms, as a new study shows.
Chimpanzees drums with hands and feet on shed roots and keep the clock as a human drummer, reports Vienna’s Animal Communication Researcher Vesta Eluteri. Depending on where the chimpanzees live, it also distinguishes itself between which tact they strike.
Monkeys in the eastern drum different beats
The large monkeys in the west of Africa tap simple rhythms with the same distances in a sturdy beat, while their colleague species alternate short and long intervals in the East and prefer slower pace. The study was published in the magazine “Current Biology”.
Vesta Eleuteri (Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna) collected and evaluated 371 recordings of Chimpanzees Drum performances from various rainforests and savannas of Africa with international colleagues.
Researchers: uniquely large data set
“With the help of this uniquely large data set, the evidence was achieved: Chimpanzees drums rhythmically,” explain the researchers in a broadcast: “Our results indicate that the possibility of beating perkussive, music -like rhythms, long before the rise of people.”
Chimpanzees are not the only one
Incidentally, the chimpanzees are not the only animals that can hold the pace. A sea lion from the United States, for example, has such a good sense of rhythm that nobody did better than cut them in a test. Some time ago the Kakadu “Snowball” with its dance movements became known.
Source: Krone
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