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We dont know if they only grunted. Maybe they had already developed tradition and started to tell stories about dangers in the world.
If you compare the skull and brain capacity of chimpanzees and the Australopothecus, you get a brain size somewhere in the middle. We know chimpanzees use tools, manage huntings and can build sentences after humans teached them. So it is not unbelievable that they told to stories about things that were important to their lives.
If you consider normal flooding by heavy rain or rivers, like the nile or now in italy, as a constant happening, it is not so far that they teached their children about a floof like we know in the bible. Kinda like "if rain, much water, go higher, once all land flooded".
And this story gets renewed everytime humans see a flood. Thats why you can find in many myths a flood myth.