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Marmosets prove to be polite conversationalists

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Monkeys take it in turns to 'talk' to each other, like humans.

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  1. Takahashi, D. Y., Narayanan, D. Z. & Ghazanfar, A. A. Curr. Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.09.005 (2013).

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