Curiosity Daily Podcast: Accent-Changing Monkeys and the Information “Dataome”

Learn about why monkeys imitate other species’ accents; and the “dataome,” a new way to think about information.

July 28, 2021

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Monkeys change their "accent" to get along with other species by Steffie Drucker

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