Chimp "Dinner Conversation" Proof of Ape Speech?

[sugarimp]

Adrianne Appel for National Geographic News, October 20, 2005

Scientists say they have discovered the first evidence that chimpanzees speak to each other about objects in their environment.Chimps at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland use a crude language of grunts to talk to each other about their food, say primate experts at the University of St.

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[caatinga]

Neat. My prediction is that the grunts indicate a highly prized food, mostly exclamations of emotion...I feel like trying to attribute a lexicon to the grunts is far fetched, especially since it sounds like the infants were fed by humans, who certainly weren't teaching the young chimps "words".