Charlotte Wiltshire

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...

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! 👍👋🤝🤜👐

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo: a mutually understood communication system

The last (for now) in our #MondayMicDrop series is Dr Graham’s paper “The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system”. Want to learn more about bonobo gesture 👍 👋 🤙 ? Listen here 🎧: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbfj...
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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...

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

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning

Bonobo gestures 🤝 chimpanzee gestures. Listen 🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning” for this week’s #MondayMicDrop. Link here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWIg...
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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...

Audio not your thing? You can find the paper here: 📘📖https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2018.0403#d1e408

Proving intentionality in non-human animals has proven challenging... #sciencecomics

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham Scratching beneath the surface: intentionality in great ape signalproduction

What’s “intentional communication”, anyway? This week’s #MondayMicDrop 🎧 is Dr Graham’s paper “Scratching beneath the surface: intentionality in great ape signal production” 👍 👋 🤙. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Z6...
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#WildMindsLab PI @nakedprimate.bsky.social (and some awesome collaborators) doing really cool research, as always. 🐵🍇🍎🍺🍷

A white hand holding a metal compass in a forest

Do I take my ADHD meds to the field? What to put in a risk assessment w dyspraxia? How do I support ND students during fieldschool?

If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you!
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You can read the paper here: 📘📖🐵
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Who doesn’t love comics? Find a summary of the paper below ⬇️

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures

Starting off Monday with #Bonobo #gesture fun 👋🤙✌️! Bonobos infer gesture meaning based off the context it was given in. Listen🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo gestures”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMr...
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Working on a Saturday?! Wicked soundtrack it is 🫧💗💚🧙‍♀️

Day 1 of writing retreat… let’s go 💪🏼

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 ...

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”

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads

How should we measure joint attention 👩‍👦? #mondayMicDrop “Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads: Sharing looks cannot be reliably identified by naïve third-party observers” for this week’s #MondayMicDrop 🎧. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqlf...
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The end of an era - my notebook is full! Can’t wait to decorate a new one 💗

please no i've just finished watching the last of us 😰🍄

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...

Read the paper here 📖📘https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03949370.2021.1988722#d1e1117

“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.”

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham A socio-ecological perspective on gestural communication of ape species, individuals & social units

Ever wondered how the environment affects gesture use in great apes? @kirstyegraham.bsky.social narrates “A socio-ecological perspective on the gestural communication of great ape species, individuals, and social units” #MondayMicDrop 🎧
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDz...
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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...

Alternatively, link to the paper here: 📘
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

In a rush? Dr Graham made a comic of their paper! 🦹🐵

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham Towards A Great Ape Dictionary

#MondayMicDrop 🎧! Did you know we already “speak chimp”? Humans understand common non-human ape gestures. Kirsty narrates their paper, “Towards a great ape dictionary: Inexperienced humans understand common nonhuman ape gestures”. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2GU...
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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...

Alternatively, link to the paper here: 😎💻📖
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Audio not your thing? 🎧 How about cartoons? Dr Graham also makes comics of their research. Here is a summary of their paper: