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Meaningful Communication in Primates, Birds, and Other Animals

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Communication plays a role, and sometimes a major role, in almost all aspects of behavior that have to do with higher cognition in animals. Research in this area has usually concentrated on several distinct topics, these being memory, problem solving, learning, using tools, concept formation and categorization, referential signaling, inferring the state of another, and even engaging in hunting. Debates on the cognitive abilities of apes have dominated the last decade and have been the impetus for a substantial volume of research and innovative writing (e.g., Byrne, 1995; Byrne and Whiten, 1988; Carruthers and Smith, 1996; Harcourt, 2000; Heyes, 1998; Heyes and Huber, 2000; Parker and Gibson, 1990; Gibson and Ingold, 1993; Russon et al., 1996; Sternberg and Kaufman, 2002). Many experiments conducted with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans have since underscored the belief that great apes have higher cognitive abilities, but the view that these might be unique to great apes amongst animals has become incresingly doubtful.

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Kaplan, G. (2004). Meaningful Communication in Primates, Birds, and Other Animals. In: Rogers, L.J., Kaplan, G. (eds) Comparative Vertebrate Cognition. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8913-0_6

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