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around 80 gestures that form a language common to several groups of wild apes, measured in terms of 'apparently satisfactory outcomes' (ASO) after assessing many records. A citizen science project showed that some of the gestures are also understood by humans. Hobaiter is also involved in habituating a second group of chimpanzees in the
Budongo Forest, the Waibira group, which will allow wider comparisons of the use of gestures for communication in the wild.
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Her work has studied the use of gestures in communication by great apes, especially chimpanzees, in the wild. This requires filming gestures for detailed analysis and, prior to her work, this had been undertaken primarily in zoos or wildlife parks. Her studies have gradually developed a catalogue of
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Hobaiter is based at the
University of St Andrews but spends considerable amounts of time on field research in Uganda. She gained tenure in 2013.
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Catherine (Cat) Hobaiter initially lived in
Lebanon, returning to the UK when she was a child. She studied B. Sc. Biological Sciences at the
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Andrea Knox, Joey Markx, Emma How, Abdul Azis, Catherine
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as well as gestures widespread among chimpanzees can provide information to inform the debate.
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The spread of a novel behaviour in wild chimpanzees: new insights into the ape cultural mind.
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Byrne, R. W., Cartmill, E., Genty, E., Graham, K. E., Hobaiter, C. & Tanner, J. (2017)
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Juan Olvido Perea-García, Mariska E. Kret, Antónia
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Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts
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Gruber, T., Poisot, T., Zuberbuehler, K., Hoppitt, W. & Hobaiter, C. (2015)
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Great ape gestures: intentional communication with a rich set of innate signals.
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