Because they’re communicating? Mystery solved?
The mystery is “why this gesture” and not “are they communicating”
The hypothesis that’s being put forward is this:
Apes, they argue, do not inherit specific gestures, but they do inherit the sense that they can use gestures to communicate with other chimpanzees. The animals create new gestures by borrowing — or “recruiting,” in the scientists’ lingo — movements that apes commonly make.
Oh okay, that makes more sense. I suppose I should have read the article, but I think they should have let you write the title.
They’d probably get less engagement if I did that; headlines that confuse people cause them to comment, which in turn causes Facebook and Reddit to show content to more people.
Sounds like humans. Not sure why scientists would think all apes would use the same language. Even giving a middle finger isn’t a universal gesture across our species.
I’ll say this again.
Anyone down voting a post here is a jerk.
Doesn’t matter if it’s a repost, if you don’t like the article, disagree with the article, this C/ is 100% people taking extra effort to give other people access to something.
They only time a down vote here would be acceptable is if it wasn’t actually a “gift”, as in the link was paywalled, or maybe if it wasn’t from the Times (seeing as how the name of the C/ is specifically for that organization, but you still shouldn’t downvote if it’s a similar thing).
Votes are kinda bad overall, but since they’re in place as a part of lemmy you never, ever down vote something done in good faith that provides access to information you would otherwise have to pay to access. It’s just a dick move.
