Once thought to be the exclusive domain of humans, researchers from Anglia Ruskin University in England and the University of Vienna in Austria recorded and studied the calls of various monkeys at ...

Yodelers of the world, you never stood a chance: Monkeys will always be better at yodeling than humans because they have a "cheap trick" hidden in their voice box, scientists revealed Thursday.

The monkeys' "ultra-yodels" had frequency leaps that were five times larger than human frequency changes, often exceeding ...

Yodelling monkeys can produce far greater frequency jumps than humans due to special structures in their throats, research suggests. Scientists investigated the “abrupt frequency jumps” in ...

The study suggests that monkeys can make these speedy vocal flip-flops far better than humans. But it isn't a case of practice makes perfect, it's down to special structures in their throats instead.

It turns out apes and monkeys possess vocal membranes in their throats that humans lack. Scientists suspect these structures ... to introduce what the scientists call “voice breaks” into their calls.