Symbolic Communication Between Two Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes )
- 18 August 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 201 (4356), 641-644
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.675251
Abstract
Through use of learned symbols, two chimpanzees accurately specified 11 foods by name to one another when the food item's identity was known by only one. They could not do this when denied use of the symbols. The chimpanzees then spontaneously requested specific foods of one another by name. Requests resulted in cooperative and reciprocal symbolically mediated food exchange.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Two-Way Communication with an Infant Chimpanzee1 1The research described here was supported by National Institute of Mental Health grants MH-12154 and MH-34953 (Research Scientist Development Award to B. T. Gardner), by National Science Foundation grant GB-7432, and by a grant from the National Geographic Society.Published by Elsevier ,1971