What does it all mean anyway? Decoding ape communication. (Remote from the Ugandan forest)

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Ape gesture is intentional and language-like with over 100 gesture types and a decoded meaning method that uses recipient response to stop signaling. A database of 25,000 tokens across communities lets latent cluster analysis reveal almost double the number of discrete units, and pose estimation models track mouth and limb movement across sites. Findings include community-specific rhythms, leaf-clip vs leaf-pull dialects, shorter gestures to familiar partners, and drumming signature differences tied to context.

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1. 0:00Ape communication research
2. 1:33Human bias in animal studies
3. 4:28Language-like ape gestures
4. 9:33Beyond toolkits: focusing on social context and plot
5. 13:55Big data on ape gestures
6. 18:16Cultural norms in apes
7. 20:26Social identity in decoding
8. 23:22Do apes think in gestures or vice versa
9. 25:30Teaching ape gestures
10. 27:21Gossip in primates
11. 30:37Fire and language evolution
12. 34:13Q&A