Fanged Frogs Are Highly Evolved

These frogs aren't going to give up their legs lightly. Species of frog are rapidly evolving adaptations, such as the small fangs they've grown, on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and scientists are amazed by how far they've come in such a short period of time. One reason is their lack of competition on the island, another reason being the frogs that live on the island all dwell within their own individual pocket, so as to avoid further rivalry over food. Nine species of frogs on Sulawesi have never been documented by scientist before, and thirteen species have developed the cute little choppers, making them look like something out of a Twilight-Muppets crossover. There's lots more to read on the subject at PhysOrg.com.

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@Fae - True enough, as far as the monkey is concerned all the "words" are merely instances of a Class. There is nothing that seems to indicate in this synopsis that the monkey's recognize the Class of objects as consisting of speech. However, there are other studies, and perhaps in this study as well, in which the monkey's are in active dialogue with researchers through the words they are being taught. The extent of this dialogue is usually that the researcher issues a command like "Get the red ball" and the monkey's get the red ball. They mix it up a bit and say "Get the blue ball" or "Get the red block" and the monkeys interpret the command correctly.

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Sounds like nothing more than pattern recognition. Because these particular patterns happen to look like words is irrelevant.

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