Chimpanzees Make Extra Effort to Alert Others Unaware of Danger (4 of 7) (VIDEO)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Caption

Experiment 1 with marking: Kato alert hoos and marks a gaboon viper model for an ignorant receiver with whom he shares a bond (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, Budongo Forest, Uganda). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 15, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Crockford at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and colleagues was titled, 'Vocalizing in chimpanzees is influenced by social cognitive processes.'

Credit

[Credit: © Taï Chimpanzee Project]

Usage Restrictions

Please cite the owner of the material when publishing. This material may be freely used by reporters as part of news coverage, with proper attribution. Non-reporters must contact <i>Science</i> for permission.

License

Licensed content

Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.