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• Researchers Create Glossary Of Gestures Used By Wild Chimpanzees
  For the first time, scientists from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have decoded the meaning behind the various gestures that chimpanzees use to communicate with one another, observing more than 80 wild Ugandan primates in order to compile a glossary of their hand and body movements.Writing in the July 2 edition of the journal Current Biology, St. […]
• Monkeys Believe In Winning Streaks, Study Shows
  Humans have a well-documented tendency to see winning and losing streaks in situations that, in fact, are random. But scientists disagree about whether the "hot-hand bias" is a cultural artifact picked up in childhood or a predisposition deeply ingrained in the structure of our cognitive architecture.Now in the first study in non-human primates of […]
• Chimpanzees Prefer African, Indian Beats over Western, Japanese Music
  While preferring silence to music from the West, chimpanzees apparently like to listen to the different rhythms of music from Africa and India, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association."Our objective was not to find a preference for different cultures' music. We used cultural music from Africa, India and Japan t […]