{"id":571,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/singing-lemurs-could-show-how-humans-evolved-to-create-music\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","slug":"singing-lemurs-could-show-how-humans-evolved-to-create-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/singing-lemurs-could-show-how-humans-evolved-to-create-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing lemurs could show how humans evolved to create music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-06-27 12:03:18<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Lemurs could hold vital clues about the origin of human music.<BR><br \/>\nA study of &#8220;singing&#8221; Indris lemurs that live in the Madagascan rainforest has revealed that the animals have learned to communicate through song like humans and birds do.<BR><br \/>\nThe lemurs also use rhythmic vocalisations such as alarm calls to warn their fellow creatures when predators are approaching.<BR><br \/>\nExperts from the University of Warwick and the University of Turin have found that Indris have &#8220;isochrony&#8221; in their communication &#8211; where the time in between sounds and notes are equal, just like in music &#8211; after recording the animals over a period of 15 years.<BR><br \/>\nThe team suggests that the results show that humanity&#8217;s musical attributes could have evolved early in the primate lineage.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Daria Valente, co-author of the study at the University of Turin, said: &#8220;The findings highlight the evolutionary roots of musical rhythm, demonstrating that the foundational elements of human music can be traced back to early primate communication systems.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-06-27 12:03:18 Lemurs could hold vital clues about the origin of human music. A study of &#8220;singing&#8221; Indris lemurs that live in the Madagascan rainforest has revealed that the animals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}