Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers
Marlen Fröhlich,
Maria A. van Noordwijk,
Tatang Mitra Setia
et al.
Abstract:In many group-living species, individuals are required to flexibly modify their communicative behaviour in response to current social challenges. To unravel whether sociality and communication systems co-evolve, research efforts have often targeted the links between social organisation and communicative repertoires. However, it is still unclear which social or interactional factors directly predict communicative complexity. To address this issue, we studied wild and zoo-housed immature orangutans of two specie… Show more
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