Researchers Discover Chimps Rely On Language In The Same Ways That Humans Do Its already a well-known fact that primates are capable of learning sign language -- but who needs human sign language when you have your own? Findings of a recent study on Ugandan chimpanzees have resulted in a detailed dictionary of intra-species chimp communication, in the form of sign language. The chimps were filmed between 2007 and 2009, and over 66 different gestures were recorded by the researchers. This is remarkable, as the evidence indicates that chimpanzees use physical gestures as means of communicating in a flexible, goal-oriented, and intentional fashion, replicated across all great ape species in captivity and chimpanzees in the wild. read more:
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:22:10 +0000
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