There is a world of difference between what a scientist can publish and what we encounter in the world.The discovery that a female White-handed Gibbon living in captivity bangs a door in time with her territorial song is described by Thomas Geissmann, a leading expert on gibbon conservation and behaviour, as 'tool use'.
Following Steven Mithen (2008), would it really hurt to describe this as a [very basic] kind of 'music making'?
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