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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Sep 8

You can read the paper here: 📖https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-016-1035-9

The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system - Animal Cognition

In animal communication, signallers and recipients are typically different: each signal is given by one subset of individuals (members of the same age, sex, or social rank) and directed towards anothe...

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Sep 8

Bonobos and chimpanzees use over 90% of the same gesture types! 👍👋🤝🤜👐

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Sep 8

The last (for now) in our #MondayMicDrop series is Dr Graham’s paper “The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system”. Want to learn more about bonobo gesture 👍 👋 🤙 ? Listen here 🎧: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbfj...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science

The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo: a mutually understood communication system

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Sep 1

Alternatively, link to the paper here: 📖📖https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004825

Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning

Author summary Bonobos and chimpanzees are closely related members of the great ape family, and both species use gestures to communicate. We are able to deduce the meaning of great ape gestures by loo...

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Sep 1

As always, the awesome Dr Graham has made a comic of their paper. #sciencecomic

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Sep 1

Bonobo gestures 🤝 chimpanzee gestures. Listen 🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning” for this week’s #MondayMicDrop. Link here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWIg...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science

Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Aug 18

Audio not your thing? You can find the paper here: 📘📖https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2018.0403#d1e408

Scratching beneath the surface: intentionality in great ape signal production | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Despite important similarities having been found between human and animal communication systems, surprisingly little research effort has focussed on whether the cognitive mechanisms underpinning these...

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Aug 18

Proving intentionality in non-human animals has proven challenging... #sciencecomics

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Aug 18

What’s “intentional communication”, anyway? This week’s #MondayMicDrop 🎧 is Dr Graham’s paper “Scratching beneath the surface: intentionality in great ape signal production” 👍 👋 🤙. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Z6...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science

Scratching beneath the surface: intentionality in great ape signalproduction

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Aug 12

#WildMindsLab PI @nakedprimate.bsky.social (and some awesome collaborators) doing really cool research, as always. 🐵🍇🍎🍺🍷

Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 11

A new study adds support to the so-called “drunken monkey” hypothesis by examining just how often living apes indulge in fallen—presumably boozy—fruits. scim.ag/3UoyyO3

Our ape ancestors’ taste for fermenting fruit may have paved a boozy evolutionary path

Eating fallen fruit—or “scrumping”—plays a bigger part in many apes’ diets than scientists realized

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · Aug 12

Do I take my ADHD meds to the field? What to put in a risk assessment w dyspraxia? How do I support ND students during fieldschool?

If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you!
tinyurl.com/yckyrf4r

A white hand holding a metal compass in a forest

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Aug 11

You can read the paper here: 📘📖🐵
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures | John Benjamins

Abstract In most languages, individual words can be ambiguous between several different meanings, but through syntax and context the intended meaning of an ambiguous word usually becomes apparent. Man...

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Aug 11

Who doesn’t love comics? Find a summary of the paper below ⬇️

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Aug 11

Starting off Monday with #Bonobo #gesture fun 👋🤙✌️! Bonobos infer gesture meaning based off the context it was given in. Listen🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo gestures”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMr...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science #MondayMicDrop

Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Aug 9

Working on a Saturday?! Wicked soundtrack it is 🫧💗💚🧙‍♀️

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Jul 29

Day 1 of writing retreat… let’s go 💪🏼

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Jul 28

Link to the paper here: 📖https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255241

Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads: Sharing looks cannot be reliably identified by naïve third-party observers

Joint attention, or sharing attention with another individual about an object or event, is a critical behaviour that emerges in pre-linguistic infants and predicts later language abilities. Given its ...

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Jul 28

“we analysed categorisations made by 32 naïve raters of 60 infant looks to their mothers, to examine whether they could be reliably distinguished according to Hobson and Hobson’s definitions. Raters had overall low agreement”

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Jul 28

How should we measure joint attention 👩‍👦? #mondayMicDrop “Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads: Sharing looks cannot be reliably identified by naïve third-party observers” for this week’s #MondayMicDrop 🎧. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqlf...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science

Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Jul 4

The end of an era - my notebook is full! Can’t wait to decorate a new one 💗

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Jun 16

please no i've just finished watching the last of us 😰🍄

Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Jun 16

How forceful #fungi penetrate host cells — primer by Lauren Ryder Joris Sprakel and Nick Talbot

www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Jun 16

Read the paper here 📖📘https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03949370.2021.1988722#d1e1117

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

Over the last 30 years, most research on non-human primate gestural communication has been produced by psychologists, which has shaped the questions asked and the methods used. These researchers ha...

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Jun 16

“Research into species, individual, and group differences in gestural communication is currently lagging behind the vast range of projects studying variation in other areas of great ape behaviour.”

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Jun 16

Ever wondered how the environment affects gesture use in great apes? @kirstyegraham.bsky.social narrates “A socio-ecological perspective on the gestural communication of great ape species, individuals, and social units” #MondayMicDrop 🎧
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDz...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science

A socio-ecological perspective on gestural communication of ape species, individuals & social units

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Jun 2

Alternatively, link to the paper here: 📘
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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

All nonhuman great apes share a large repertoire of gestures, but there are many challenges to observing these gestures in humans. This study, by showing people videos of ape gestures and testing thei...

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