Chimpanzee alarm call production meets key criteria for intentionality.

Determining the intentionality of primate communication is critical to understanding the evolution of human language. Although intentional signalling has been claimed for some great ape gestural signals, comparable evidence is currently lacking for their vocal signals. We presented wild chimpanzees...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Anne Marijke Schel, Simon W Townsend, Zarin Machanda, Klaus Zuberbühler, Katie E Slocombe
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076674