Monkeys will always be better at yodeling than humans because they have a "cheap trick" hidden in their voice box, scientists revealed Thursday.

Their remarkable vocal ability is thanks to thin vocal cord membranes located above the vocal folds in the larynx.

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

A new study suggests that when it comes to yodelling, you might be better taking notes from a monkey. Yodelling is a singing ...

allow monkeys to introduce voice breaks to their calls. These structures disappeared from humans through evolution to allow for more stable speech. Authors of the study, published in the journal ...

These membranes disappeared from humans through evolution to allow for more stable speech. These membranes allow monkeys to introduce "voice breaks" to their calls at the same rapid transitions in ...

Apes and monkeys possess special anatomical structures in their throats called vocal membranes, which disappeared from humans through evolution to allow for more stable speech. However ...

It turns out apes and monkeys possess vocal membranes in their throats that humans lack. Scientists suspect these structures slowly disappeared through evolution to allow for more stable speech. So ...

When monkeys howl -- or yodellers yodel -- they ... Dunn said. At some during our evolution, humans seem to have lost these membranes, he added. But the shame of being inferior yodellers may ...