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These spectrograms represent tickle sounds from the simpler grunts of an orangutan (top), which may resemble ancestral laughs, to the more structured calls of a ticklish bonobo (middle) and human (bottom). Return to main story. Credit: From Davila Ross et al. Current Biology. 2009
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