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ArticleBody:To get our points across, humans use numerous gestures and shift the speed and tone of our speech. We are not the only members of the animal kingdom to do this. According to new observations from a study published July 22 in the journal Current Biology, chimpanzees may share our pattern of rapidly taking turns to speak and, sometimes, even interrupting each other.
Some of the behavioral responses to gestures were slower. “We did see a little variation among different chimp communities, which again matches what we see in people where there are slight cultural variations in conversation pace: some cultures have slower or faster talkers,” Badihi said. “In humans, it is the Danish who are ‘slower’ responders, and in Eastern chimpanzees that’s the Sonso community in Uganda,” said Hobaiter.
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