This is a video recording of the 2020 Gesture paper "Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures" by Kirsty Graham, Takeshi Furuichi, and Richard Byrne. We find that although some bonobo gestures appear to have multiple meanings, they seem to have specific meanings in specific contexts.

You can read the paper here: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/24764/Graham_2021_Gesture_BonoboGestures_AAM.pdf

You can watch the paper here: https://youtu.be/QGMrwctNRww

The link to the article (if you have access to 'Gesture' journal) is here: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/gest.19028.gra

And you can find video examples of all the gesture types on the  Great Ape Dictionary YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@GreatApeDictionary

Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures

Hunter College Asst Prof (fall 2024) studying animal communication 🐒