Usage and comprehension of manual gestures in wild chimpanzees

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 459-470

  Roberts, Anna Ilona ^a,b,c   Vick, Sarah Jane ^a   Buchanan Smith, Hannah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BUDONGO CONSERVATION FIELD STATION   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Communication; Contextual comprehension; Gesture; Gesture meaning; Great ape; Intentionality; Manual gesture; Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii; Semantic comprehension

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; MOVEMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; SIGNAL; WILD POPULATION;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII;

EID: 84864151020     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.05.022     Document Type: Article

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