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The rapid back and forth dance of face-to-face conversations is not unique to us humans. While chimps typically favor gestures over sounds, their exchange of ideas is just as fast as ours and reflects similar cultural patterns, a new study reveals.
Examining more than 8,500 instances of gestures from 252 individual chimps, Badihi and colleagues saw not only similar patterns to human communication within the chimps' activities, but that they also reflected differences in communication between their cultures too. "In humans, it is the Danish who are 'slower' responders, and in Eastern chimpanzees that's the Sonso community in Uganda,"has identified other similarities in the ways we communicate. Just as our words make up sentences to provide meaning, for example, chimps also combine short frequently used gestures in combination to form longer sequences of meaning.
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