{"id":213710,"date":"2025-05-10T05:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/chimpanzee-groups-drum-with-distinct-rhythms-research-finds"},"modified":"2025-05-10T05:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:11:31","slug":"chimpanzee-groups-drum-with-distinct-rhythms-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/chimpanzee-groups-drum-with-distinct-rhythms-research-finds","title":{"rendered":"Chimpanzee groups drum with distinct rhythms, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chimpanzee-groups-drum-with-distinct-rhythms-research-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(25)00448-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Current Biology<\/i>, show that eastern and western chimpanzees\u2014two distinct subspecies\u2014drum with distinguishable rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say these findings suggest that the building blocks of human musicality arose in a common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on our previous work, we expected that western chimpanzees would use more hits and drum more quickly than eastern chimpanzees,\u201d says lead author Vesta Eleuteri of the University of Vienna, Austria. \u201cBut we didn\u2019t expect to see such clear differences in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/rhythm\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rhythm<\/a> or to find that their drumming rhythms shared such clear similarities with human <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/music\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">music<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, published in Current Biology, show that eastern and western chimpanzees\u2014two distinct subspecies\u2014drum with distinguishable rhythms. The researchers say these findings suggest that the building blocks of human musicality arose in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}