"No", "Get into my back" ... chimpanzees language gestures

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People are gifted voice. But they are connected body language for the intonation of the voice, silence, doubt (para-verbal) and (nonverbal). Chimpanzees who do not speak. But these primates have body language. The study was published on Thursday, has 66 actions dictionary bearing type identifies 19 specific messages (in English) on July 3 issue of the journal Current Biology, USA.

Attract, invite a warning

He said the five-story when a mother shows them with their means walking "riding on my back." Other examples: Do not touch the arm of the other means "scratch me" and chew the leaves called sexual attention. These gestures are clear. But others are more difficult to decipher. So grab by other means such as "Stop", "Walk with me" or "intends."

"This is the first time that we can distinguish, in the gestures used" write real world ", which is used to communicate and play in chimpanzees in captivity in the first place," the authors, the authors Hobaiter Catherine and Richard Byrne from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland (United Kingdom). The identification of these gestures, analyzed 4,500 times exchange of chimpanzees, which was filmed in Uganda between 2007 and 2009.

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