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This is learning English from the news, our podcast about the news headlines in.
This program, how chimpanzees have conversations just like us.
Hello, I'm Phil.
And I'm Beth.
In this program, we look at one big news story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it.
You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode, as well as a worksheet on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
so let's hear more about this story, Phil.
Okay, so this story comes from a study that's been observing chimpanzees over many decades, and they've seen that chimpanzees gesture with their hands to communicate.
Yeah.
And chimpanzees, or chimps, as we sometimes call, call them, take turns to do this, and they even interrupt each other just like humans.
So this turn taking and the time between these turns is actually very similar to the way that we do it as humans when we're communicating.
And I have a headline here that's about the main finding of the study.
Chimps share human snappy conversational style.
And that's from BBC News in the UK.
Yep.
Again, that headline, chimps share humans snappy conversational style.
And that is from BBC News in the UK.
Now, this headline is all about the way that chimps communicate with each other.
We have this adjective, snappy, which means quick, concise and effective.