ArticleiScience2021
Orangutans have larger gestural repertoires in captivity than in the wild-A case of weak innovation?
Article in iScience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars.Evolutionary human sciences · 2026Article
- Assessing flexibility in meaning and context in non-human communication.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- The gestural repertoire of Bwindi mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei): gesture form and frequency of use.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Dance displays in gibbons: biological and linguistic perspectives on structured, intentional, and rhythmic body movement.Primates; journal of primatology · 2025Article
- The role of exploration and exploitation in primate communication.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
- What we know and don't know about great ape cultural communication in the wild.American journal of primatology · 2025Review
- Idiosyncratic gesture use in a mother-infant dyad in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2024Article
- Play Behavior Varies with Age, Sex, and Socioecological Context in Wild, Immature Orangutans (International journal of primatology · 2024Article
- Dialects in leaf-clipping and other leaf-modifying gestures between neighbouring communities of East African chimpanzees.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Social tolerance and interactional opportunities as drivers of gestural redoings in orang-utans.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Individual variation and plasticity in the infant-directed communication of orang-utan mothers.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Whether nonhuman species can change their communicative repertoire in response to socio-ecological environments has critical implications for communicative innovativeness prior to the emergence of human language, with its unparalleled productivity. Here, we use a comparative sample of wild and zoo-housed orangutans of two species (
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