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Tool-assisted rhythmic drumming in palm cockatoos shares key elements of human instrumental music.
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Abstract
All human societies have music with a rhythmic "beat," typically produced with percussive instruments such as drums. The set of capacities that allows humans to produce and perceive music appears to be deeply rooted in human biology, but an understanding of its evolutionary origins requires cross-taxa comparisons. We show that drumming by palm cockatoos (
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