Intentional gestural communication amongst red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus).
Flexibility
Gestural communication
Intentionality
Manual
Monkey
Primates
Journal
Animal cognition
ISSN: 1435-9456
Titre abrégé: Anim Cogn
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9814573
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2022
Oct 2022
Historique:
received:
08
08
2020
accepted:
16
03
2022
revised:
26
01
2022
pubmed:
2
4
2022
medline:
2
11
2022
entrez:
1
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Apes, human's closest living relatives, are renowned for their intentional and highly flexible use of gestural communication. In stark contrast, evidence for flexible and intentional gestural communication in monkeys is scarce. Here, we investigated the intentionality and flexibility of spontaneous gesture use in red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus). We applied established methods used in ape gesture research to analyse whether the body acts produced by a total of 17 individuals living in three different groups in captivity qualified as intentionally produced gesture instances. Results showed that signallers showed all hallmarks of intentionality during the production of 20 out of a total of 21 different types of body acts. These were only produced in the presence of other individuals, and the monkeys showed audience checking, sensitivity to the attentional states of recipients, adjustment of signal modality, and response waiting relative to their production. Moreover, in case of communication failure, the monkeys showed goal persistence, and regarding the production contexts they showed some signs of means-ends dissociation. Therefore, these monkeys are capable of flexible and intentional gestural communication and use this to communicate with conspecifics. Our results corroborate recent findings showing that intentional gestural communication was already present in the monkey lineage of catarrhine primates. We discuss our results in light of the comparative approach towards human language evolution and highlight our finding that these monkeys also showed flexible and intentional use of four 'free' manual gesture types.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35362785
doi: 10.1007/s10071-022-01615-7
pii: 10.1007/s10071-022-01615-7
pmc: PMC9617956
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1313-1330Subventions
Organisme : FP7 Ideas: European Research Council
ID : 772000
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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