Persistence in gestural communication predicts sociality in wild chimpanzees

Visual attention, indicative gestures, and calls accompanying gestural communication are associated with sociality in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

(2018) Sam George Bradley Roberts et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Convergence and divergence in gesture repertoires as an adaptive mechanism for social bonding in primates

(2017) Anna Ilona Roberts et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Should I stay or should I go? Initiation of joint travel in mother–infant dyads of two chimpanzee communities in the wild

(2016) Marlen Fröhlich et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals

(2016) Simon W. Townsend et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Wild chimpanzees modify modality of gestures according to the strength of social bonds and personal network size

(2016) Anna Ilona Roberts et al.   Scientific Reports

Play-solicitation gestures in chimpanzees in the wild: flexible adjustment to social circumstances and individual matrices

(2016) Marlen Fröhlich et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Bystanders, parcelling, and an absence of trust in the grooming interactions of wild male chimpanzees

(2016) Stefano S. K. Kaburu et al.   Scientific Reports

Multimodal communication in chimpanzees

(2015) Jared P. Taglialatela et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Meaning in animal and human communication

(2015) Thomas C. Scott-Phillips   ANIMAL COGNITION

Meaning and ostension in great ape gestural communication

(2015) Richard Moore   ANIMAL COGNITION

The effects of social network position on the survival of wild Barbary macaques,Macaca sylvanus

(2015) Julia Lehmann et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Chimpanzee lip-smacking facilitates cooperative behaviour

(2015) Pawel Fedurek et al.   Scientific Reports

Gestural Communication and Mating Tactics in Wild Chimpanzees

(2015) Anna Ilona Roberts et al.   PLoS One

Chimpanzees modify intentional gestures to coordinate a search for hidden food

(2014) Anna Ilona Roberts et al.   Nature Communications

Gesture Use by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Differences Between Sexes in Inter- and Intra-Sexual Interactions

(2013) NICOLE M. SCOTT   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Gestures and social-emotional communicative development in chimpanzee infants

(2013) Kim A. Bard et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

The repertoire and intentionality of gestural communication in wild chimpanzees

(2013) Anna Ilona Roberts et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The ontogenetic ritualization of bonobo gestures

(2013) Marta Halina et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Going That Extra Mile: Individuals Travel Further to Maintain Face-to-Face Contact with Highly Related Kin than with Less Related Kin

(2013) Thomas V. Pollet et al.   PLoS One

Vocal Recruitment for Joint Travel in Wild Chimpanzees

(2013) Thibaud Gruber et al.   PLoS One

Affiliation, empathy, and the origins of theory of mind

(2013) R. M. Seyfarth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Usage and comprehension of manual gestures in wild chimpanzees

(2012) Anna Ilona Roberts et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Communicative intentions in wild chimpanzees: persistence and elaboration in gestural signalling

(2012) Anna Ilona Roberts et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Use of gesture sequences in captive chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) play

(2012) Maureen S. McCarthy et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

A structure-based repertoire of manual gestures in wild chimpanzees: statistical analyses of a graded communication system

(2012) Anna Ilona Roberts et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity

(2012) T. M. Freeberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bridging the bonding gap: the transition from primates to humans

(2012) R. I. M. Dunbar   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Onset and early use of gestural communication in nonhuman great apes

(2011) CHRISTEL SCHNEIDER et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

The dining etiquette of desert baboons: the roles of social bonds, kinship, and dominance in co-feeding networks

(2011) Andrew J. King et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Serial gesturing by wild chimpanzees: its nature and function for communication

(2011) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The gestural repertoire of the wild chimpanzee

(2011) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The central importance of information in studies of animal communication

(2010) Robert M. Seyfarth et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Semantics of primate gestures: intentional meanings of orangutan gestures

(2010) Erica A. Cartmill et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Strong and Consistent Social Bonds Enhance the Longevity of Female Baboons

(2010) Joan B. Silk et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Kinship and social bonds in female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2009) Kevin Langergraber et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Male chimpanzees form enduring and equitable social bonds

(2009) John C. Mitani   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Why do gorillas make sequences of gestures?

(2009) Emilie Genty et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Gestural communication of the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla): repertoire, intentionality and possible origins

(2009) Emilie Genty et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

A multidimensional approach to investigations of behaviour: revealing structure in animal communication signals

(2008) Gillian Sebestyen Forrester   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies

(2008) R. A. Hill et al.   Biology Letters

The social role of touch in humans and primates: Behavioural function and neurobiological mechanisms

(2008) R.I.M. Dunbar   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS