Day: November 15, 2017

Chimpanzees adjust communication to fill another’s knowledge gap

Chimpanzees adjust communication to fill another’s knowledge gap

Adjusting communication to take into account information available to one’s audience is routine in humans but has been assumed absent in other animals. This assumption may be premature. Scientists Catherine Crockford and Roman Wittig from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and Klaus Zuberbühler from the University of Neuchatel show that wild…