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ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2017

"Giving" and "responding" differences in gestural communication between nonhuman great ape mothers and infants.

Christel Schneider, Katja Liebal, Josep Call

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Article in Developmental psychobiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Christel SchneiderSchool of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK.
Katja LiebalComparative Developmental Psychology, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Josep CallDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Freie Universität Berlin · DEUniversity of East London · GBUniversity of St Andrews · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the first comparative analysis of its kind, we investigated gesture behavior and response patterns in 25 captive ape mother-infant dyads (six bonobos, eight chimpanzees, three gorillas, and eight orangutans). We examined (i) how frequently mothers and infants gestured to each other and to other group members; and (ii) to what extent infants and mothers responded to the gestural attempts of others. Our findings confirmed the hypothesis that bonobo mothers were more proactive in their gesturing to their infants than the other species. Yet mothers (from all four species) often did not respond to the gestures of their infants and other group members. In contrast, infants "pervasively" responded to gestures they received from their mothers and other group members. We propose that infants' pervasive responsiveness rather than the quality of mother investment and her responsiveness may be crucial to communication development in nonhuman great apes.

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Animal CommunicationGesturesMothersAnimalsFemaleGorilla gorillaHominidaePan paniscusPan troglodytesPongogestureinfantmothernonhuman great apesresponsiveness

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PMCPMC5434908
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