Charlotte Wiltshire
@charlotte9080.bsky.social
Animal nerd. PhD student in the WildMinds lab @ St Andrews studying chimpanzee tool use and pose estimation.
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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September 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
You can read the paper here: 📖https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-016-1035-9
Bonobos and chimpanzees use over 90% of the same gesture types! 👍👋🤝🤜👐
September 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Bonobos and chimpanzees use over 90% of the same gesture types! 👍👋🤝🤜👐
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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September 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Alternatively, link to the paper here: 📖📖https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004825
As always, the awesome Dr Graham has made a comic of their paper. #sciencecomic
September 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
As always, the awesome Dr Graham has made a comic of their paper. #sciencecomic
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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August 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Proving intentionality in non-human animals has proven challenging... #sciencecomics
August 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Proving intentionality in non-human animals has proven challenging... #sciencecomics
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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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August 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Who doesn’t love comics? Find a summary of the paper below ⬇️
August 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Who doesn’t love comics? Find a summary of the paper below ⬇️
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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July 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Link to the paper here: 📖https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255241
“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”
July 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“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”
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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June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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“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.”
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“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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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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June 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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