"BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU LOOK FOR TAYLOR. YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND" Maybe it will be harder to kill things when they can ask you not to: A bonobo has surprised his trainers by appearing to make up his own "words". It is the first report of an ape making sounds that seem to hold their meaning across different situations, and the latest challenge to the orthodox view that animals do not have language. Let's hope it leads to something like this: and not this: Damn! I'd forgotten what a complete dick Tim Burton had become... Mike is blogging to: The Murmurs