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dc.contributor.authorFedurek, Pawel
dc.contributor.authorSlocombe, Katie
dc.contributor.authorHartel, Jessica A.
dc.contributor.authorZuberbuehler, Klaus
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-10T12:10:03Z
dc.date.available2015-09-10T12:10:03Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-21
dc.identifier215896707
dc.identifierda576748-201b-4f70-b1d2-9a19d3e39a82
dc.identifier000359843200001
dc.identifier84940069467
dc.identifier000359843200001
dc.identifier.citationFedurek , P , Slocombe , K , Hartel , J A & Zuberbuehler , K 2015 , ' Chimpanzee lip-smacking facilitates cooperative behaviour ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 5 , 13460 . https://doi.org/10.1038/srep13460en
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8378-088X/work/64360687
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/7437
dc.descriptionPF was funded by Swiss National Science Foundation and European Research Council project grants (Prilang 283871) to KZ.en
dc.description.abstractSignalling plays an important role in facilitating and maintaining affiliative or cooperative interactions in social animals. Social grooming in primates is an example of an interaction that requires coordination between partners but little is known about communicative behaviours facilitating this activity. In this study, we analysed the communication of wild chimpanzees of Budongo Forest, Uganda, as they entered and maintained a naturally occurring cooperative interaction: social grooming. We found that lip-smacking, a distinct multimodal oral gesture produced during grooming, coordinated this activity. Lip-smacking at the beginning of grooming bouts was significantly more often followed by longer and reciprocated bouts than silent grooming initiations. Lip-smacks were more likely to be produced when the risk of termination of the interaction by the recipient was high, for instance when grooming vulnerable body parts. Groomers were also more likely to produce lip-smacks during face-to-face grooming where the visual aspect of the signal could be perceived. Data are consistent with the hypothesis that chimpanzee lip-smacks function to coordinate and prolong social grooming, suggesting that this oral signal is an example of a communicative behaviour facilitating cooperative behaviour in chimpanzees.
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dc.format.extent344423
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofScientific Reportsen
dc.subjectPan-troglodytesen
dc.subjectWild Chimpanzeesen
dc.subjectGestural communicationen
dc.subjectVigilance costsen
dc.subjectVervet monkeysen
dc.subjectSpeechen
dc.subjectAggresionen
dc.subjectEvolutionen
dc.subjectatternsen
dc.subjectPrimatesen
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleChimpanzee lip-smacking facilitates cooperative behaviouren
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/srep13460
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.nature.com/article-assets/npg/srep/2015/150821/srep13460/extref/srep13460-s1.pdfen


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