Gestural Origins: Linguistic Features of pan-African Ape Communication

Información del proyecto

GESTURALORIGINS

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 802719

DOI

10.3030/802719

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 21 Enero 2019

Fecha de inicio 1 Marzo 2019

Fecha de finalización 31 Mayo 2025

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Coste total

€ 1 500 000,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinado por

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
United Kingdom

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Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan (DMP)

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Publicaciones

Peer reviewed articles (39)

Social and individual factors mediate chimpanzee vocal ontogeny

Autores: Adrian Soldati, Pawel Fedurek, Guillaume Dezecache, Geresomu Muhumuza, Catherine Hobaiter, Klaus Zuberbühler, Josep Call
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-93207-x

News and Perspectives: Words matter in primatology

Autores: Michelle Bezanson, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, Júlio César Bicca-Marques, Ramesh Boonratana, Susana Carvalho, Marina Cords, Stella de la Torre, Catherine Hobaiter, Tatyana Humle, Patrícia Izar, Jessica W. Lynch, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Joanna M. Setchell, Gladys Kalema Zikusoka, Karen B. Strier
Publicado en: Primates, Edición 65, 2024, Página(s) 33-39, ISSN 0032-8332
Editor: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-023-01104-6

Object use in communication of semi-wild chimpanzees

Autores: Violet Gibson, Sarah T. Boysen, Catherine Hobaiter, Marina Davila-Ross
Publicado en: Animal Cognition, Edición 26, 2023, Página(s) 1521-1537, ISSN 1435-9448
Editor: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-023-01792-z

In search of animal normativity: a framework for studying social norms in non‐human animals

Autores: Evan Westra, Simon Fitzpatrick, Sarah F. Brosnan, Thibaud Gruber, Catherine Hobaiter, Lydia M. Hopper, Daniel Kelly, Christopher Krupenye, Lydia V. Luncz, Jordan Theriault, Kristin Andrews
Publicado en: Biological Reviews, Edición 99, 2024, Página(s) 1058-1074, ISSN 1464-7931
Editor: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/brv.13056

Recognition of visual kinship signals in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) by humans (Homo sapiens).

Autores: Hella Péter, Marion Laporte, Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher, Vernon Reynolds, Liran Samuni, Adrian Soldati, Linda Vigilant, Jakob Villioth, Kirsty E. Graham, Klaus Zuberbühler, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Journal of Comparative Psychology, Edición 136, 2024, Página(s) 255-269, ISSN 0735-7036
Editor: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/com0000327

Self-directed and prosocial wound care, snare removal, and hygiene behaviors amongst the Budongo chimpanzees

Autores: Elodie Freymann, Catherine Hobaiter, Michael Alan Huffman, Harmonie Klein, Geresomu Muhumuza, Vernon Reynolds, Nora E. Slania, Adrian Soldati, Eguma Robert Yikii, Klaus Zuberbühler, Susana Carvalho
Publicado en: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Edición 13, 2025, ISSN 2296-701X
Editor: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1540922

Shared semantics: Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication

Autores: Mathew Henderson, Patrick G. Grosz, Kirsty E. Graham, Catherine Hobaiter, Pritty Patel‐Grosz
Publicado en: Mind & Language, Edición 39, 2024, Página(s) 454-471, ISSN 0268-1064
Editor: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12500

Investigating intentionality in elephant gestural communication

Autores: Vesta Eleuteri, Lucy Bates, Yvonne Nyaradzo Masarira, Joshua M. Plotnik, Catherine Hobaiter, Angela S. Stoeger
Publicado en: Royal Society Open Science, Edición 12, 2025, ISSN 2054-5703
Editor: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.242203

Flexibility in the social structure of male chimpanzees (<i>Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii</i>) in the Budongo Forest, Uganda

Autores: Gal Badihi, Kelsey Bodden, Klaus Zuberbühler, Liran Samuni, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Royal Society Open Science, 2023, ISSN 2054-5703
Editor: the Royal Society
DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.11.472209

Chimpanzee gestural exchanges share temporal structure with human language

Autores: Gal Badihi, Kirsty E. Graham, Charlotte Grund, Alexandra Safryghin, Adrian Soldati, Ed Donnellan, Chie Hashimoto, Joseph G. Mine, Alex K. Piel, Fiona Stewart, Katie E. Slocombe, Claudia Wilke, Simon W. Townsend, Klaus Zuberbühler, Chiara Zulberti, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Current Biology, Edición 34, 2025, Página(s) R673-R674, ISSN 0960-9822
Editor: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.009

Flexible grouping patterns in a western and eastern chimpanzee community

Autores: Kathelijne Koops, Walter Akankwasa, Henry Didier Camara, Maegan Fitzgerald, Alex Keir, Gnan Mamy, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Hella Péter, Kizza Vicent, Klaus Zuberbühler, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: American Journal of Primatology, Edición 86, 2025, ISSN 0275-2565
Editor: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23593

Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use

Autores: Elliot Howard-Spink, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Susana Carvalho, Catherine Hobaiter, Katarina Almeida-Warren, Thibaud Gruber, Dora Biro
Publicado en: eLife, Edición 14, 2025, ISSN 2050-084X
Editor: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.105411.3

Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures: the case of <i>hand fling</i>

Autores: Pritty Patel-Grosz, Matthew Henderson, Patrick Georg Grosz, Kirsty Graham, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Linguistics Vanguard, Edición 9, 2024, Página(s) 63-72, ISSN 2199-174X
Editor: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0004

Ecological factors are likely drivers of eye shape and colour pattern variations across anthropoid primates

Autores: Juan Olvido Perea-García, Kokulanantha Ramarajan, Mariska E. Kret, Catherine Hobaiter, Antónia Monteiro
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 12, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-20900-6

Concerted conservation actions to support chimpanzee cultures

Autores: Erin G. Wessling, Andrew Whiten, Serge K. Soiret, Katy Scholfield, Liran Samuni, Christian Rutz, Ian Redmond, Lilian Pintea, Annette Lanjouw, Kathelijne Koops, Serge A. Kamgang, Ammie K. Kalan, Rachel Ashegbofe Ikemeh, Tatyana Humle, Catherine Hobaiter, Heidrun Frisch-Nwakanma, Elodie Freymann, Osiris Doumbe, Philippa Brakes, Ekwoge Abwe, Crickette Sanz
Publicado en: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Edición 380, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Editor: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0143

Are ape gestures like words? Outstanding issues in detecting similarities and differences between human language and ape gesture

Autores: Catherine Hobaiter, Kirsty E. Graham, Richard W. Byrne
Publicado en: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Edición 377, 2022, ISSN 0962-8436
Editor: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0301

Many morphs: parsing gesture signals from the noise

Autores: Alexander Mielke, Gal Badihi, Kirsty E. Graham, Charlotte Grund, Chie Hashimoto, Alex K. Piel, Alexandra Safryghin, Katie E. Slocombe, Fiona Stewart, Claudia Wilke, Klaus Zuberbühler, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Behaviour Research Methods, 2025, ISSN 1554-3528
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.07.551967

Sensitivity to the communicative partner's attentional state: A developmental study on mother–infant dyads in wild chimpanzees (<i>Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii</i>)

Autores: Mawa Dafreville, Catherine Hobaiter, Michèle Guidetti, David Sillam‐Dussès, Marie Bourjade
Publicado en: American Journal of Primatology, Edición 83, 2023, ISSN 0275-2565
Editor: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23339

Multimodal communication and audience directedness in the greeting behaviour of semi-captive African savannah elephants

Autores: Vesta Eleuteri, Lucy Bates, Jake Rendle-Worthington, Catherine Hobaiter, Angela Stoeger
Publicado en: Communications Biology, Edición 7, 2024, ISSN 2399-3642
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06133-5

Dead-infant carrying by chimpanzee mothers in the Budongo Forest

Autores: Adrian Soldati, Pawel Fedurek, Catherine Crockford, Sam Adue, John Walter Akankwasa, Caroline Asiimwe, Jackson Asua, Gideon Atayo, Boscou Chandia, Elodie Freymann, Caroline Fryns, Geresomu Muhumuza, Derry Taylor, Klaus Zuberbühler, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Primates, Edición 63, 2023, Página(s) 497-508, ISSN 0032-8332
Editor: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-022-00999-x

Maternal gregariousness and female audience effects mediate mother–infant proximity in wild chimpanzees

Autores: Pawel Fedurek, Cédric Girard-Buttoz, Patrick J. Tkaczynski, Catherine Hobaiter, Klaus Zuberbühler, Roman M. Wittig, Catherine Crockford
Publicado en: Animal Behaviour, Edición 223, 2025, Página(s) 123156, ISSN 0003-3472
Editor: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123156

Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation

Autores: Vesta Eleuteri, Jelle van der Werff, Wytse Wilhelm, Adrian Soldati, Catherine Crockford, Nisarg Desai, Pawel Fedurek, Maegan Fitzgerald, Kirsty E. Graham, Kathelijne Koops, Jill Pruetz, Liran Samuni, Katie Slocombe, Angela Stoeger, Michael L. Wilson, Roman M. Wittig, Klaus Zuberbühler, Henry D. Camara, Gnan Mamy, Andrea Ravignani, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Current Biology, Edición 35, 2025, Página(s) 2448-2456.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Editor: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.019

Habitual ground nesting in the Bugoma Forest chimpanzees (<i>Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii</i>), Uganda

Autores: Catherine Hobaiter, Harmonie Klein, Thibaud Gruber
Publicado en: American Journal of Primatology, 2024, ISSN 1098-2345
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.14.520400

GesturalOrigins: A bottom-up framework for establishing systematic gesture data across ape species

Autores: Charlotte Grund, Gal Badihi, Kirsty E. Graham, Alexandra Safryghin, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Behavior Research Methods, Edición 56, 2024, Página(s) 986-1001, ISSN 1554-3528
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-023-02082-9

<scp>DeepWild</scp>: Application of the pose estimation tool <scp>DeepLabCut</scp> for behaviour tracking in wild chimpanzees and bonobos

Autores: Charlotte Wiltshire, James Lewis‐Cheetham, Viola Komedová, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Kirsty E. Graham, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Journal of Animal Ecology, Edición 92, 2023, Página(s) 1560-1574, ISSN 0021-8790
Editor: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13932

Connecting primate gesture to the evolutionary roots of language: A systematic review

Autores: Evelina D. Rodrigues, António J. Santos, Flávia Veppo, Joana Pereira, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: American Journal of Primatology, Edición 83, 2024, ISSN 0275-2565
Editor: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23313

A socio-ecological perspective on the gestural communication of great ape species, individuals, and social units

Autores: Kirsty E. Graham, Gal Badihi, Alexandra Safryghin, Charlotte Grund, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Ethology Ecology &amp; Evolution, Edición 34, 2023, Página(s) 235-259, ISSN 0394-9370
Editor: Universita degli Studi di Firenze
DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2021.1988722

Chimpanzee lip-smacks confirm primate continuity for speech-rhythm evolution

Autores: André S. Pereira, Eithne Kavanagh, Catherine Hobaiter, Katie E. Slocombe, Adriano R. Lameira
Publicado en: Biology Letters, Edición 16, 2021, Página(s) 20200232, ISSN 1744-9561
Editor: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0232

Selectivity in Buttress Drumming Tree Properties Among Chimpanzees (<i>Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii</i>) of the Waibira Community in Budongo Forest, Uganda

Autores: Wytse Wilhelm, Vesta Eleuteri, Kathelijne Koops, Maegan Fitzgerald, Klaus Zuberbühler, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: American Journal of Primatology, Edición 87, 2025, ISSN 0275-2565
Editor: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23712

The form and function of chimpanzee buttress drumming

Autores: Vesta Eleuteri, Matthew Henderson, Adrian Soldati, Gal Badihi, Klaus Zuberbühler, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Animal Behaviour, Edición 192, 2022, Página(s) 189-205, ISSN 0003-3472
Editor: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.07.013

Scleral pigmentation leads to conspicuous, not cryptic, eye morphology in chimpanzees

Autores: Juan Olvido Perea-García, Mariska E. Kret, Antónia Monteiro, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Edición 116, 2022, Página(s) 19248-19250, ISSN 0027-8424
Editor: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1911410116

Referential gestures are not ubiquitous in wild chimpanzees: alternative functions for exaggerated loud scratch gestures

Autores: C. Wilke, N.J. Lahiff, G. Badihi, E. Donnellan, C. Hobaiter, Z.P. Machanda, R. Mundry, S. Pika, A. Soldati, R.W. Wrangham, K. Zuberbűhler, K.E. Slocombe
Publicado en: Animal Behaviour, Edición 189, 2022, Página(s) 23-45, ISSN 0003-3472
Editor: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.04.007

Well-digging in a community of forest-living wild East African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

Autores: Hella Péter, Klaus Zuberbühler, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Primates, Edición 63, 2022, Página(s) 355-364, ISSN 0032-8332
Editor: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-022-00992-4

Variable expression of linguistic laws in ape gesture: a case study from chimpanzee sexual solicitation

Autores: Alexandra Safryghin, Catharine Cross, Brittany Fallon, Raphaela Heesen, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Royal Society Open science, 2024, ISSN 2054-5703
Editor: the Royal Society
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.19.444810

Towards a great ape dictionary: Inexperienced humans understand common nonhuman ape gestures

Autores: Kirsty E. Graham, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: PLOS Biology, Edición 21, 2023, Página(s) e3001939, ISSN 1545-7885
Editor: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001939

The gestural repertoire of Bwindi mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei): gesture form and frequency of use

Autores: Charlotte Grund, Martha M. Robbins, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Animal Cognition, Edición 28, 2025, ISSN 1435-9456
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01977-8

Thermal imaging reveals social monitoring during social feeding in wild chimpanzees

Autores: Claire Barrault, Adrian Soldati, Catherine Hobaiter, Stephen Mugisha, Delphine De Moor, Klaus Zuberbühler, Guillaume Dezecache
Publicado en: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Edición 377, 2023, ISSN 0962-8436
Editor: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0302

Exploring greetings and leave-takings: communication during arrivals and departures by chimpanzees of the Bossou community, Guinea

Autores: Evelina D. Rodrigues, António J. Santos, Misato Hayashi, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Primates, Edición 63, 2023, Página(s) 443-461, ISSN 0032-8332
Editor: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-021-00957-z

Dialects in leaf-clipping and other leaf-modifying gestures between neighbouring communities of East African chimpanzees

Autores: Gal Badihi, Kirsty E. Graham, Brittany Fallon, Alexandra Safryghin, Adrian Soldati, Klaus Zuberbühler, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-25814-x

Conference proceedings (4)

Understanding great ape calls and gestures with deep pretrained neural network

Autores: Jiang Z, Soldati A, Hobaiter C, Moran S.
Publicado en: 2024
Editor: Folia Primatologica

The use of pose-estimation and large language models in decoding great ape communication

Autores: Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 2024
Editor: Wiley

What can an AI-trained language software tell us about chimpanzee calls?

Autores: Adrian Soldati, Josep Call, Klaus Zuberbuhler, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: 2024
Editor: Folia Primatologica

Compositionality of wild chimpanzee gestures

Autores: Alexander Mielke, Gal Badihi, Kirsty Graham, Chie Hashimoto, Alex Piel, Alexandra Safryghin, Katie E Slocombe, Fiona Stewart, Claudia Wilke, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: 2024
Editor: Folia Primatologica

Book chapters (4)

Recognizing Intentional Signals and their Meanings in Non-Human Communication

Autores: Catherine Hobaiter, Adriano R. Lameira, Derek Ball
Publicado en: Xenolinguistics, 2023
Editor: Routledge

Social Cognition and Communication in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

Autores: Evelina Daniela Rodrigues & Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2021
Editor: Springer

Re-imagining great ape gesture (coding)

Autores: Erica A Cartmill, Emilie Genty, Kirsty E Graham, Charlotte Grund, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution, 2025, Página(s) 469-486
Editor: Oxford University Press

Gestural communication in the great apes: Tracing the origins of language

Autores: Hobaiter, C
Publicado en: Chimpanzees in context: A comparative perspective on chimpanzee behavior, cognition, conservation, and welfare, 2020, Página(s) 233–259
Editor: The University of Chicago Press

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

Eve of extinction

Autores: Catherine Hobaiter, Nathaniel J. Dominy
Publicado en: Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution, Edición 8, 2024, Página(s) 846-847, ISSN 2397-334X
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02359-y

Predictability of next elements in chimpanzee gesture sequences

Autores: Alexander Mielke, Gal Badihi, Ed Donnellan, Kirsty E. Graham, Chie Hashimoto, Joseph G. Mine, Alex K. Piel, Alexandra Safryghin, Katie E. Slocombe, Adrian Soldati, Fiona A. Stewart, Simon W. Townsend, Claudia Wilke, Klaus Zuberbühler, Chiara Zulberti, Catherine Hobaiter
Publicado en: BioXiv, 2024, ISSN 2692-8205
Editor: Cold Spring Harbour
DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.13.623362

The importance of local specialists in science: Where are the local researchers in primatology?

Autores: Catherine Hobaiter, John Walter Akankwasa, Geresomu Muhumuza, Moreen Uwimbabazi, Inza Koné
Publicado en: Current Biology, Edición 31, 2023, Página(s) R1367-R1369, ISSN 0960-9822
Editor: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.034