Production and Comprehension of Gestures between Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a Referential Communication Game.

Orang-utans played a communication game in two studies testing their ability to produce and comprehend requestive pointing. While the 'communicator' could see but not obtain hidden food, the 'donor' could release the food to the communicator, but could not see its location for he...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Richard Moore, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4474718?pdf=render