Humans can recognize and understand chimpanzee and bonobo gestures (IMAGE)

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Humans can recognize and understand chimpanzee and bonobo gestures

Caption

Chimpanzees use lots of different gestures to communicate, like this “reach” which they usually use to ask for food. Participants selected the right meaning for the reach gesture and were overall able to understand ape gestures.

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Catherine Hobaiter (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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