Production and Comprehension of Gestures between Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a Referential Communication Game

Orang-utans played a communication game in two studies testing their ability to produce and comprehend requestive pointing. While the ‘communicator’ could see but not obtain hidden food, the ‘donor’ could release the food to the communicator, but could not see its location for herself. They could co...

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Main Authors: Moore, Richard, Call, Josep, Tomasello, Michael
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4474718/