Chimps drumming may reveal insight into roots of music

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Feel the rhythm! Chimps drumming may reveal insight into roots of music
Researchers discovered that chimpanzees drum with distinctive, nonrandom rhythms. This finding suggests that the roots of human musicality may date back to a common ancestor with these primates. These fascinating findings came from observing chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest in Uganda, and were published on May 9 in Current Biology.