Chimpanzees' 66 gestures revealed.

[laconicsax]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9475000/9475408.stm

Wild chimpanzees use at least 66 distinct gestures to communicate with each other, according to scientists.

A team of researchers from the University of St Andrews in Scotland filmed a group of the animals in order to decipher this "gestural repertoire".

The team then studied 120 hours of footage of the chimps interacting, looking for signs that the animals were intentionally signalling to each other.

More at link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9475000/9475408.stm

[jpak]

1. Wow - I thought Bush only used 12

Who knew?

:evilgrin:

[Recursion]

2. Scholars will use these to decode much of the George W. Bush library, no doubt (nt)

[Bonobo]

3. These would be culturally transmitted and therefore almost certainly

vary from tribe to tribe.