Monkeys have accents too, researchers say - Yahoo! News

Monkeys have accents too, researchers say - Yahoo! News: "TOKYO (AFP) - To the untrained ear monkeys of a certain species may all sound the same, but Japanese researchers have found that, like human beings, they actually have an accent depending on where they live.
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The finding, the first of its kind, will appear in the December edition of a German scientific journal Ethology to be published on December 5, the primate researchers said Tuesday.

'Differences between chattering by monkeys are like dialects of human beings,' said Nobuo Masataka, professor of ethology at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute.

The research t"