Showing off: Wild chimpanzees show others objects simply to share attention uniofyork PNASNews
The researchers, from universities including York and Warwick, captured footage of the chimpanzee encouraging her mother to join her in looking at a leaf. The discovery suggests that in certain social conditions, wildcan share experiences with each other, using gestures in order to comment or remark on the world.
capitalizes on this trait, and even in our first year of life we start to show others interesting things we've found." Co-author Simon Townsend from the universities of Warwick and Zurich added,"Our observations suggest that in specific social circumstances chimps may show each other objects of interest, to share attention about them, and that this behavior may not be unique to humans."
The researchers will now conduct further research on communities of chimpanzees to see if they can observe other chimps engaging in this showing and sharing behavior.
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