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The chimpanzee and the moon: declarative pointing might not be uniquely human

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Bräuer,  Juliane
Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Bräuer, J. (2022). The chimpanzee and the moon: declarative pointing might not be uniquely human. Psychology today, 202212.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-436D-F
Abstract
The pointing gesture used to show something is an important part of human communication.
Chimpanzees in captivity point in order to get something, but they are bad at understanding the human pointing gesture.
Pointing declaratively, to direct the attention of another to an object, was thought to be unique to humans.
New observations indicate that chimpanzees also show objects to each other, although very rarely.