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  • Bonobo Rhythms: Do Primates Have a Sense of Beat?
    Yes, bonobos can keep the beat. A study published in the journal Current Biology in 2015 found that bonobos are able to synchronize their movements to a musical beat, even when the tempo changes. The study involved six bonobos who were trained to tap their hands on a touch-sensitive screen in time with a metronome. The researchers found that the bonobos were able to keep the beat at a variety of tempos, and that they were also able to synchronize their movements to a human tapping a rhythm. This suggests that bonobos have a natural sense of rhythm and are able to learn to synchronize their movements to music.
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