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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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