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Bonnie, a 30-year old whistling orangutan

Bonnie, a 30-year-old female orangutan living at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., began whistling a sound that is in a humans, but not an orangutans, repertoire after hearing an animal caretaker make the sound. Bonnie is the first-known orangutan to imitate a sound from a human's vocal repertoire.



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Submitted By: salegold

Date Added: 47 weeks ago


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