Why Do Apes Make Gestures? Chimps and other apes have been observed making more than 80 meaningful gestures. Three theories have tried to explain why.

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because they’re communicating? Mystery solved?

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The mystery is “why this gesture” and not “are they communicating”

    The hypothesis that’s being put forward is this:

    Apes, they argue, do not inherit specific gestures, but they do inherit the sense that they can use gestures to communicate with other chimpanzees. The animals create new gestures by borrowing — or “recruiting,” in the scientists’ lingo — movements that apes commonly make.

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds like humans. Not sure why scientists would think all apes would use the same language. Even giving a middle finger isn’t a universal gesture across our species.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh okay, that makes more sense. I suppose I should have read the article, but I think they should have let you write the title.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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