A little cartoon showed participants what gesture they were looking for in the video and half of participants were told what the apes were doing.

"We found that the timing of chimpanzee gesture and human conversational turn-taking is similar and very fast, which suggests that similar evolutionary mechanisms are driving these social ...

Their gestures allow them to communicate over short distances to achieve social goals in the moment. “So, one chimpanzee could gesture to another that they want food, and the other might give ...

Lead researcher Dr Gal Badihi, also at the University of St Andrews, explained that gestures allowed the chimpanzees to avoid conflict and coordinate with each other. “So one chimpanzee could ...