Play-solicitation gestures in chimpanzees in the wild: flexible adjustment to social circumstances and individual matrices

Social play is a frequent behaviour in great apes and involves sophisticated forms of communicative exchange. While it is well established that great apes test and practise the majority of their gestural signals during play interactions, the influence of demographic factors and kin relationships bet...

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Main Authors: Marlen Fröhlich, Roman M. Wittig, Simone Pika
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2016-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160278