How do great apes use their gestures?
Sequential Tool Use in Great Apes
... tool use is defined as using a tool to obtain another non-food object which subsequently itself will serve as a tool to act upon a further ...and great apes succeed in such ...tool use ...
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Great Apes and Other Stories
... 85 until he stopped being cute. A drifter through life with no family. She took him in. They mated often, but without results. One day, some humans came and stuck her with something sharp. They were different humans ...
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How Do Gestures Reflect Thought and When Do They Affect Thought?
... on how to solve these particular mathematics ...their use of problem solving strategies, which can then improve their mathematics learning (Broaders et ...
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Differences in the ability of apes and children to instruct others using gestures
... iconic gestures, many chimpanzees and bonobos pointed to the food for the human to show their desire for ...iconic gestures, then, would seem to be especially difficult for great apes, perhaps ...
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Thirty years of great ape gestures
... ape gestures constitute a unique form of primate communication with their own unique ...Keywords Apes · Gestures · Communication There are two broad perspectives from which human lan- guages may be ...
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Perspective-Taking and Theory of Mind in Great Apes
... nonhuman apes use different means when guiding others’ attention to a location, indicating that differing cognitive mechanisms may underlie their pointing ...
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Context-sensitive adjustment of pointing in great apes
... in great apes is a context-sensitive, but maybe less versatile, communicative signal compared to human ...response. Great ape gestural communication meets the criteria of intentional gesture ...
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United for Africa s Great Apes and Monkeys
... retaining wall that surrounds the island, and keep the chimpanzees safe. Even things that might not have caused an emer- gency in a typical year were escalated due to the pandemic and how it cut off PASA members ...
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Are great apes aggressive? A cross species comparison
... “Dominance relationships are commonly characterised by three structural properties: stability, transitivity and linearity (...). Under such conditions individuals can be assigned unambiguous ordinal dominance ranks that ...
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Sound symbolic congruency detection in humans but not in great apes
... whereas apes performed one block per testing session, completing six sessions in ...the apes’ performance, thus arguing against this differ- ence being relevant for explaining between-species differences in ...
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Walking With Great Apes, by Sy Montgomery (Book Preview)
... remembered how she acclimated the animals to her presence, and i did the same: each day i wore the same clothing—jeans, the shirt i slept in, my father’s billowing green army jacket, and a red kerchief, so they ...
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Best Practice Guidelines for the Re-introduction of Great Apes
... the Great Ape Conservation Act of the United States Department of Interior (grant number 98210-5-G223) and the Great Ape Trust of ...for use of their ...
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How Early do Children Understand Gesture-speech Combinations with Iconic Gestures?
... iconic gestures might be the lack of familiarity with such gestures at the early ...iconic gestures with objects at age 1 ; 6, it is not until age 2 ; 2 that they truly understand the iconic relation ...
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When do speakers use gestures to specify who does what to whom? : the role of language proficiency and type of gestures in narratives
... They used pronouns instead of nouns to identify referents in their L1, and they did not over-mark the referents with gestures (see also Yoshioka, 2008). We know from these findings that language proficiency can ...
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How do great bowerbirds construct perspective illusions?
... The visual angles created by the gradient create a forced perspective illusion that females can use to choose a mate. Although the quality of illusion is consistent within males, it varies among males, which may ...
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Intuitive optics: what great apes infer from mirrors and shadows
... information great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans) gain from optical effects such as shadows and mirror ...whether apes would use mirror images and shadows to locate hidden ...that ...
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Predicting the vulnerability of great apes to disease : the role of superspreaders and their potential vaccination
... Although this prevented us from making detailed quantitative comparisons, the markedly different overall patterns that emerged highlight differences in how disease is likely to spread in the two species. The ...
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Intuitive optics : what great apes infer from mirrors and shadows
... information great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans) gain from optical effects such as shadows and mirror ...whether apes would use mirror images and shadows to locate hidden ...that ...
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Onset and early use of gestural communication in nonhuman great apes
... sensory modality (tactile, visual, and auditory) were first observed in the 19 infants who 227.. qualified for the onset analysis..[r] ...
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Are apes essentialists? Scope and limits of psychological essentialism in great apes
... inhibition, memory and ratio conditions, and in the corresponding food preference trials. The 950[r] ...
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