Monkeys Have Accents Too

One day, watching geese in Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy, I wondered if an Italian goose and an American goose would understand each other. Do they speak the same language?

I guess that same thought occured to someone else:

Japanese researchers have found that, like human beings, monkeys actually have an accent depending on where they live.

The finding, the first of its kind, will be published Monday in the December edition of a German scientific journal Ethology, the primate researchers said Tuesday.

"Differences between chattering by monkeys are like dialects of human beings," said Nobuo Masataka, professor of ethology at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute.