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What was that he said? Online quiz - can you understand apes?

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Elegran Thu 20-Jul-17 17:11:38

I thought the videos were rather short to see clearly what they were gesturing, but the diagrams helped.

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Elegran Thu 20-Jul-17 17:09:49

How similar chimp babies are to human babies!

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tanith Thu 20-Jul-17 17:08:27

Thanks for an interesting read I got 11 .

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rosesarered Thu 20-Jul-17 17:06:14

Very interesting!
I only scored 6/20 mind you!

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Elegran Thu 20-Jul-17 16:45:15

Something a bit different from those "What kind of fruit are you?" type quizzes. I scored nine out of twenty.
greatapedictionary.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2017/07/03/and-were-online-how-great-an-ape-are-you/

"An online experiment to investigate whether humans can understand the meaning of ape gestures has been created by researchers at the University of St Andrews.
Their studies have shown that chimpanzees and bonobos have more than 60 different gestures that they use to communicate with each other. Many of the chimpanzee and bonobo gestures are the same for both of these closely related species of ape. Now the scientists want to find out whether or not their closest relatives – human beings – can understand what the gestures mean.

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