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Gibbon dance provides a model for investigating the use of gestural signals in primates

A northern white gibbon at Mulhouse Zoo (left) and a female northern gibbon and children at Amsterdam Zoo (right). Credit: Miriam Lindenmayer (left). HHU/Kai R. Kasper (right) Female crested gibbons move in jerky, almost geometric patterns. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf, Oslo, Norway, and Paris studied this remarkable movement, which is comparable to human dance. In Primates,…