Study shows female chimps have distinct gesture strategies

(Phys.org) —Nicole Scott, of the University of Minnesota, working with the Centre for Research in Evolutionary Anthropology at the Chester Zoo in the U.K. has found that captive female chimpanzees use different sorts of physical gestures when interacting with other females, versus males. In her paper published in the American Journal of Primatology, she describes the differences in gestures she observed while studying videotapes she made of the interactions of 17 female and 5 males in their enclosure at the zoo.

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