Members of the research team created a task that required coordination between the chimpanzees and the human experimenter in order to find a piece of food hidden in a wide open area. The experimenter did not know where the food was hidden and the chimpanzees used hand gestures such as pointing, in order to guide the experimenter towards the location of the food.
Remember the children's game "hot-cold", where one person uses these words to direct another person to a hidden toy or candy? Well, it turns out chimps can play this game too.
Researchers at the Center for Language Research at the University of Georgia studied how two linguistically trained chimpanzees communicated with an experimenter to locate food. The results of the study constitute the most complete evidence to date that primates can use gestures to coordinate activities among themselves, in order to achieve a specific goal.
Members of the research team created a task that required coordination between the chimpanzees and the human experimenter in order to find a piece of food hidden in a wide open area. The experimenter did not know where the food was hidden and the chimpanzees used hand gestures such as pointing, in order to guide the experimenter towards the location of the food.
Dr. Charles Menzel, a senior researcher in the Department of Language Research at the University of Georgia, said the design of the experiment with the chimpanzees as facilitators created a new way to study the primates. Menzel added that "the experiment allows the chimpanzees to communicate and transfer information among themselves as they choose, but also requires them to initiate and persist in communication. The chimpanzees used gestures to enlist the help of a person who did not know the location of the food and later directed him towards the bone that was hidden at a distance of ten meters or more. Due to the openness of the method, the findings illustrate that the chimpanzees are endowed with a high level of directed action, including the use of gestures for direction. This research deepens the existing knowledge about the chimpanzees' ability to remember and communicate with their environment."
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The research team includes researchers from the University of Chester and the University of Stirling, and it was published in the journal Nature Communication. One of the researchers, Dr. Anna Roberts from the University of Chester, explained the importance of the findings discovered in the study: "The use of gestures to coordinate a joint activity, such as finding food, is one of the most important building blocks in the evolution of language."
Dr. Sarah-Jane Wick from the University of Stirling in Scotland added to Dr. Roberts's words and said that previous studies of chimpanzees in the wild and in captivity showed flexibility in the creation of gestures. The uniqueness of the current study is in the confirmation of the cognitive abilities involved in communication between the chimpanzees, abilities that were discovered thanks to the complex task that required coordination between them.
Another researcher who participated in the study, Dr. Sam Roberts from the University of Chester emphasized the comparison to children's games and added that "the flexible use of pointing, which takes into account both the location of the food and the action of the experimenter, is a phenomenon that has not been observed in chimpanzees before."
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Maybe it's time to censor sick comments like that of an anonymous user?
On his sites, you will be sure that you will not be able to comment.
It's time to use the religious methods and block.
And the title is indeed harmful. There is no evolution in this particular case.
Maybe it's time to censor sick comments like that of an anonymous user?
On his sites, you will be sure that you will not be able to comment.
It's time to use the religious methods and block.
to her daughter
They play most of the time
And the babies (yes, babies) in general….
All predators in a group or at least predators in a fragmented group have the ability to communicate among themselves for a purpose.
Even insects like ants
I wonder how Batia would manage in the jungle for a week, except to pray.
And the anonymous person really knows how to design cars by himself, jump like a kangaroo, and make parrot noises, or he only knows how to imitate his teacher.
It's not just that you're anonymous
The problems you raise about evolution only show your incredible lack of understanding of evolution.
You don't look at an external form to see genetic kinship, but look at the DNA itself.
In short, it's better to understand before giving an opinion...
As another who sees the theory of evolution as an obvious thing, the title of the article is harmful.
In the research there is no demonstration of evolution but of communication (simple or complex depending on preconceptions about the ability of primates to communicate)
There are a wide variety of films showing chimpanzees organizing and going on hunting and war expeditions including dividing into battle groups with different roles, so their communication ability is no longer in doubt.
This is not evolution at all. It has long been known that certain animals have impressive abilities compared to other animals. When someone shows me a monkey designing a car on its own, then there will be something to talk about. So far it's not even close.
By the way, an interesting fact is that kangaroos walk on two legs like humans, while monkeys do not. Does this mean that man descended from the kangaroo? And what about talking parrots? Is such a parrot the missing link between humans and monkeys?
http://creation.com/qa#Biology
Many problems in evolution can be found at this excellent site:
There is no evolution here, because it is already known that monkeys communicate in nature, and keeping monkeys in captivity is coercion and training. Such a monkey, if he returns to the wild, will have to protect himself from other animals as well as from humans, and his main task will be to obtain food, not play with humans.
There is a video that claims to show that chimpanzees succeed in a certain test related to mental ability more than humans (see link below) but when I examine the video it seems that the test given to monkeys is not really the same as the test given to humans. It seems that in the test given to the monkeys the numbers disappear only when the monkey presses the number "1", while in the test given to the humans the numbers disappear almost immediately even before the subject even had time to press the first number or memorize the order of the numbers in his head. It looks a bit like work for the eyes (although the very success of the monkeys in this test is very impressive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPiDHXtM0VA
What do you think, did I see correctly?
(For more videos of this test, search YouTube for "Chimp smarter than human")
Thanks for the important news.
Here are Prof. Yoel's interesting lectures on evolution, fossils and chimpanzees
https://www.youtube.com/results?q=%22%D7%99%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C%20%D7%A8%D7%A7%22&bav=on.2,or.&bvm=bv.59930103,d.bGQ,pv.xjs.s.en_US.eYG7PyzNpLg.O&biw=1024&bih=597&wrapid=tlif139072974054031&um=1&ie=UTF-8&gl=IL&sa=N&tab=w1