Iconic gesturing in bonobos
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Iconic gesturing in bonobos
We comment on a recent behavioral study in which we describe a human-like beckoning gesture in 2 groups of bonobos, used in combination with sexual solicitation postures. The beckoning gesture fulfils key criteria of deixis and iconicity, in that it communicates to a distant recipient the desired travel path in relation to a specific social intention, i.e., to have sex at another location. We d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Communicative & Integrative Biology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1942-0889
DOI: 10.4161/19420889.2014.992742