 While philosophers are finding value in animal behavior to develop theories of communication, there is less impact on theories of language. This is perhaps due to the fact that linguists tend to agree with Noam Chomsky that it is “obviously true” that animals can have systems of communication, but lack anything that can be called a language (Chomsky 1980: 430). However, continued research into animal communication challenges the idea that human language is discontinuous from animal communication systems, with evidence of capacities supporting recursion in birdsongs (Gentner et al. 2006) and syntax in bonobos (Clay &amp; Zuberbühler 2011). Appeal to such findings permits better theories regarding the evolution of language (Zuberbühler 2020).