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Social orangutans have varied vocal personalities

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Taking advantage of natural variation present in six populations of wild orangutans, a new study correlates population density with multiple facets of individuals’ vocal phenotype and demonstrates that sociality influences vocal plasticity in great apes.

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Fig. 1: Wild female orangutans.

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