H2020 ERC Starting Grant 2018 GESTURALORIGINS

Research output

Research output per year 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

• 25 Article
• 1 Chapter

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Selectivity in buttress drumming tree properties among chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurtii) of the Waibira community in Budongo Forest, Uganda

  Wilhelm, W., Eleuteri, V., Koops, K., Fitzgerald, M., Zuberbühler, K. & Hobaiter, C., 1 Jan 2025, In: American Journal of Primatology. 87, 1, 12 p., e23712.

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  • Cynometra 100%
  • Chrysophyllum albidum 100%
• 2024

  Chimpanzee gestural exhanges share temporal structure with human language

  Badihi, G., Graham, K. E., Grund, C. V. C., Safryghin, A., Soldati, A., Donnellan, E., Hashimoto, C., Mine, J. G., Piel, A. K., Stewart, F., Slocombe, K. E., Wilke, C., Townsend, S. W., Zuberbühler, K., Zulberti, C. & Hobaiter, C., 22 Jul 2024, In: Current Biology. 34, 14, p. 673-674 2 p.

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  • Human Language 100%
  • Temporal 100%
  • Timing 100%
  • Turn-Taking 100%
  • Face to face communication 100%

• Flexible grouping patterns in a western and eastern chimpanzee community

  Koops, K., Akankwasa, W., Camara, H. D., Fitzgerald, M., Keir, A., Mamy, G., Matsuzawa, T., Péter, H., Vicent, K., Zuberbühler, K. & Hobaiter, C., 22 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: American Journal of Primatology. Early View, e23593.

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  • Sex Ratio 100%
  • Pan Troglodytes 50%

• Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs

  Graham, K. E., 11 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Learning and Behavior. First online, 2 p.

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  • Gestural Communication 100%

• Habitual ground nesting in the Bugoma Forest chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), Uganda

  Hobaiter, C., Klein, H. & Gruber, T., 29 Jan 2024, In: American Journal of Primatology. 86, 2, 8 p., e23583.

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  • Pan Troglodytes 100%
  • Flagship Species 50%
  • Africans 50%
  • Forest Reserve 50%

• In search of animal normativity: a framework for studying social norms in non-human animals

  Westra, E., Fitzpatrick, S., Brosnan, S. F., Gruber, T., Hobaiter, C., Hopper, L. M., Kelly, D., Krupenye, C., Luncz, L. V., Theriault, J. & Andrews, K., 24 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Biological Reviews. Early View, 17 p.

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  • Social Norms 100%
  • Psychology 66%

• Many morphs: parsing gesture signals from the noise

  Mielke, A., Badihi, G., Graham, K. E., Grund, C., Hashimoto, C., Piel, A. K., Safryghin, A., Slocombe, K. E., Stewart, F., Wilke, C., Zuberbühler, K. & Hobaiter, C., 4 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Behavior Research Methods. First Online, 18 p.

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  • Parsing 100%
  • Top-Down Approach 100%
  • Bottom-Up Approach 100%
  • Gesture 100%
  • Dimensional Feature Space 50%

• Multimodal communication and audience directedness in the greeting behaviour of semi-captive African savannah elephants

  Eleuteri, V., Bates, L., Rendle-Worthington, J., Hobaiter, C. & Stoeger, A., 9 May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Communications Biology. 7, 12 p., 472 .

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  • Captive 100%
  • Vocalization 100%
  • Multi-modal communication 100%
  • Greeting 100%
  • Directing 100%

• Shared semantics: exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication

  Henderson, M., Grosz, P. G., Graham, K. E., Hobaiter, C. & Patel-Grosz, P., 26 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Mind & Language. Early View, 18 p.

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  • Semantic universals 100%
  • Repertoire 100%
  • Nonhuman 100%
  • Similarities 100%
  • Gestural Communication 100%
• 2023

  Decay rates of arboreal and terrestrial nests of Eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Bugoma Central Forest Reserve, Uganda: implications for population size estimates

  Romani, T., Mundry, R., Shaban, G. M., Konarzewski, M., Namaganda, M., Hobaiter, C., Gruber, T. & Hicks, T. C., 1 Sept 2023, In: American Journal of Primatology. 85, 9, 12 p., e23536.

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  • Population Size 100%
  • Pan Troglodytes 100%
  • Forest Reserve 100%
  • Nesting Behavior 50%
  • Population Density 50%

• DeepWild: application of the pose estimation tool DeepLabCut for behaviour tracking in wild chimpanzees and bonobos

  Wiltshire, C., Lewis-Cheetham, J., Komedová, V., Matsuzawa, T., Graham, K. E. & Hobaiter, C., 1 Aug 2023, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 92, 8, p. 1560-1574 15 p.

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  • Pose Estimation 100%
  • Animal Behavior 100%
  • Machine Learning 100%
  • Pan Paniscus 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%

• Dialects in leaf-clipping and other leaf-modifying gestures between neighbouring communities of East African chimpanzees

  Badihi, G., Graham, K. E., Fallon, B., Safryghin, A., Soldati, A., Zuberbühler, K. & Hobaiter, C., 5 Jan 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 11 p., 147.

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  • Africans 100%
  • Animal Species 50%
  • Animal Communication 50%
  • Pan Paniscus 50%

• GesturalOrigins: a bottom-up framework for establishing systematic gesture data across ape species

  Grund, C. V. C., Badihi, G., Graham, K. E., Safryghin, A. & Hobaiter, C., 15 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Behavior Research Methods. 56, p. 986–1001 16 p.

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  • Open Access 100%
  • Basic Framework 100%
  • Action-Type 100%
  • Gestural Communication 100%
  • Gesture 100%

• Object use in communication of semi-wild chimpanzees

  Gibson, V., Boysen, S. T., Hobaiter, C. & Davila-Ross, M., 1 Sept 2023, In: Animal Cognition. 26, p. 1521-1537 17 p.

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  • Social Interaction 100%
  • Nonverbal Communication 50%
  • Tool Use 50%

• Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures: the case of hand fling

  Patel-Grosz, P., Henderson, M., Grosz, P. G., Graham, K. & Hobaiter, C., 1 Dec 2023, In: Linguistics Vanguard. 9, 1, p. 63-72 10 p.

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  • Case Study 100%
  • Gesture 100%

• Towards a great ape dictionary: inexperienced humans understand common nonhuman ape gestures

  Graham, K. E. & Hobaiter, C., 24 Jan 2023, In: PLoS Biology. 21, 1, 11 p., e3001939.

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  • Gesture 100%
  • Evolution 12%
  • Pan Paniscus 12%
• 2022

  Are ape gestures like words? Outstanding issues in detecting similarities and differences between human language and ape gesture

  Hobaiter, C., Graham, K. & Byrne, R. W., 26 Sept 2022, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 377, 1860

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  • Human Language 100%
  • Similarities 100%
  • Interpersonal Context 100%
  • Interpersonal 50%
  • Interactive 50%

• Dead-infant carrying by chimpanzee mothers in the Budongo Forest

  Soldati, A., Fedurek, P., Crockford, C., Adue, S., Akankwasa, J. W., Asiimwe, C., Asua, J., Atayo, G., Chandia, B., Freymann, E., Fryns, C., Muhumaza, G., Taylor, D., Zuberbühler, K. & Hobaiter, C., 10 Jul 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Primates. First Online, 12 p.

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  • Infancy 100%
  • Africans 100%
  • Psychology 100%

• Ecological factors are likely drivers of eye shape and colour pattern variations across anthropoid primates

  Perea-García, J. O., Ramarajan, K., Kret, M. E., Hobaiter, C. & Monteiro, A., 15 Oct 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 9 p., 17240.

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  • Body Weight 100%
  • Interspecific Variation 100%
  • Circadian Rhythm 100%

• Flexibility in the social structure of male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Budongo Forest, Uganda

  Badihi, G., Bodden, K., Zuberbühler, K., Liran, S. & Hobaiter, C., 28 Sept 2022, In: Royal Society Open Science. 9, 9, 20 p., 220904.

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  • Pan Troglodytes 100%
  • Group Dynamics 100%
  • Dynamics 50%
  • Social Benefit 50%
  • Africans 50%

• The form and function of chimpanzee buttress drumming

  Eleuteri, V., Henderson, M., Soldati, A., Badihi, G., Zuberbühler, K. & Hobaiter, C., Oct 2022, In: Animal Behaviour. 192, p. 189-205

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  • Vocalization 100%
  • Buttress Root 100%
  • Animal Species 100%
  • Pan Troglodytes 100%
  • Estrus 100%

• Thermal imaging reveals social monitoring during social feeding in wild chimpanzees

  Barrault, C., Soldati, A., Hobaiter, C., Mugisha, S., de Moor, D., Zuberbühler, K. & Dezecache, G., 26 Sept 2022, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 377, 1860, 9 p., 20210302.

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  • Physiological State 100%
  • Ficus Carica 50%
  • Social Environment 50%
  • Psychology 50%

• Variable expression of linguistic laws in ape gesture: a case study from chimpanzee sexual solicitation

  Safryghin, A., Cross, C. P., Fallon, B. L. A., Heesen, R., Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & Hobaiter, C., 9 Nov 2022, In: Royal Society Open Science. 9, 11, 13 p., 220849.

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  • Case Study 100%
  • Gesture 100%
  • Energy Transfer 100%
  • Organizational Level 50%
  • Negative Correlation 50%

• Well-digging in a community of forest-living wild East African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

  Peter, H., Zuberbühler, K. & Hobaiter, C., 6 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Primates. First Online, 10 p.

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  • Savanna 100%
  • Pan Troglodytes 100%
  • Africans 100%
• 2021

  Exploring greetings and leave-takings: communication during arrivals and departures by chimpanzees of the Bossou community, Guinea

  Rodrigues, E. D., Santos, A. J., Hayashi, M., Matsuzawa, T. & Hobaiter, C., 17 Nov 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Primates. First Online, 19 p.

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  • Guinea 100%
  • Departure 100%
  • Greeting 100%
  • Facial Expression 100%
  • Social Interaction 100%