Scientists Success Translate Language Body Chimps
Researchers at the University of St Andrews, Scotland has successfully translated the gestural language or gestures chimpanzees. Discussion gestures that used these species to communicate with other chimps.
Researchers say 19 wild chimpanzees communicate specific messages to each other with a vocabulary of 66 gestures.
Scientists found that after recording vocabulary chimpanzee communities in Uganda and examine more than 5 thousand that meaningful communication.
Study leader, Dr. Catherine Hobaiter said, finding the language in chimps it is the only form of communication that had been recorded in animals.
Hobaiter mention only humans and chimpanzees, which have a communication system to the other. "That's why chimps gesture is amazing. It's the one that looks like a human language," explains Dr. Catherine Hobaiter.
Mentioned, although previous studies have shown apes and monkeys can understand complex information from other animal calls, but both kewan it does not raise their voices to communicate the message.
Meanwhile, chimpanzees can even respond in the form of voice response and gestures.
Researchers say, chimpanzees consistently using multiple motion gestures to convey one meaning.
For example, researchers found a bite on the leaf movement means chimpanzees want to attract the attention of other sexually mating or making out.
Other movements were recorded in one clip shows the moment a female parent show the soles of his feet to the offspring, it signifies, "climbing into the back".
And, in fact, after showing the soles of the feet, the child chimp jumped into the back of the mother and traveling together.
"The main message from this research is that there are other species out there that have a meaningful communication, so it is not only human beings," said Hobaiter.
Evolution of Human Language
He also added, given the chimps closer to humans than apes, it is not surprising that between humans and chimps there are many similarities in many ways.
Initiative study discussion chimpanzee movement was praised Dr. Susanne Shultz, evolutionary biologist at the University of Manchester, UK.
According to him, the study was able to fill the gaps in knowledge related to the discussion of human evolution. However, Shultz regretted that the results of the study were considered to be "a bit disappointing".
He disagreed about the chimpanzee's body movements. According to him, there are still a lot of vagueness of gestures chimpanzees.
"Ambiguity sense body movements that shows chimpanzees have little (gesture) to communicate, it means we are still losing a lot of information contained in gestures and their actions," said Shultz.
Source : Viva
Researchers say 19 wild chimpanzees communicate specific messages to each other with a vocabulary of 66 gestures.
Scientists found that after recording vocabulary chimpanzee communities in Uganda and examine more than 5 thousand that meaningful communication.
Study leader, Dr. Catherine Hobaiter said, finding the language in chimps it is the only form of communication that had been recorded in animals.
Hobaiter mention only humans and chimpanzees, which have a communication system to the other. "That's why chimps gesture is amazing. It's the one that looks like a human language," explains Dr. Catherine Hobaiter.
Mentioned, although previous studies have shown apes and monkeys can understand complex information from other animal calls, but both kewan it does not raise their voices to communicate the message.
Meanwhile, chimpanzees can even respond in the form of voice response and gestures.
Researchers say, chimpanzees consistently using multiple motion gestures to convey one meaning.
Graphic gesture chimpanzees successfully translated.
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For example, researchers found a bite on the leaf movement means chimpanzees want to attract the attention of other sexually mating or making out.
Other movements were recorded in one clip shows the moment a female parent show the soles of his feet to the offspring, it signifies, "climbing into the back".
And, in fact, after showing the soles of the feet, the child chimp jumped into the back of the mother and traveling together.
"The main message from this research is that there are other species out there that have a meaningful communication, so it is not only human beings," said Hobaiter.
Evolution of Human Language
He also added, given the chimps closer to humans than apes, it is not surprising that between humans and chimps there are many similarities in many ways.
Initiative study discussion chimpanzee movement was praised Dr. Susanne Shultz, evolutionary biologist at the University of Manchester, UK.
According to him, the study was able to fill the gaps in knowledge related to the discussion of human evolution. However, Shultz regretted that the results of the study were considered to be "a bit disappointing".
He disagreed about the chimpanzee's body movements. According to him, there are still a lot of vagueness of gestures chimpanzees.
"Ambiguity sense body movements that shows chimpanzees have little (gesture) to communicate, it means we are still losing a lot of information contained in gestures and their actions," said Shultz.
Source : Viva
