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the dynamic dance The Dynamic Dance nonvocal communication in african great apes Barbara J. King harvard university press Cambridge,Massachusetts,andLondon,England • 2004 Copyright©2004bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData King,BarbaraJ.,1956– Thedynamicdance :nonvocalcommunicationinAfricangreatapes / BarbaraJ.King. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences(p.). ISBN0-674-01515-0(hardcover) 1.Apes—Behavior—Africa. 2.Animalcommunication—Africa. I.Title. QL737.P96K56 2004 599.88′159′096–dc22 2004047478 ReadersshouldchecktheHUPwebsiteforweb-basedfeaturesrelatedtothisbook Formydaughter,SarahElizabethHogg Contents 1 SocialCommunicationasDance 1 2 GestureandDynamicSystemsTheory 42 3 GestureinCaptiveAfricanGreatApes 84 4 GestureinWildAfricanGreatApes 136 5 TheEvolutionofGesture 177 6 ImaginedFutures 220 Notes 241 Bibliography 255 Acknowledgments 271 Index 273 Illustrations Followingpage176 Ayoungwesterngorillasuckinghisthumb Ayoungwesterngorillaridingonhismother’sback Ayoungwesterngorilladescendingfromhismother’sback BonobosinteractingatWamba,DemocraticRepublicofCongo ChimpanzeesattheYerkesPrimateCenterinAtlanta

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Mother and infant negotiate over food; two high-status males jockey for power; female kin band together to get their way. It happens among humans and it happens among our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, the great apes of Africa. In this eye-opening book, we see precisely how such eve

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the dynamic dance The Dynamic Dance nonvocal communication in african great apes Barbara J. King harvard university press Cambridge,Massachusetts,andLondon,England • 2004 Copyright©2004bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData King,BarbaraJ.,1956– Thedynamicdance :nonvocalcommunicationinAfricangreatapes / BarbaraJ.King. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences(p.). ISBN0-674-01515-0(hardcover) 1.Apes—Behavior—Africa. 2.Animalcommunication—Africa. I.Title. QL737.P96K56 2004 599.88′159′096–dc22 2004047478 ReadersshouldchecktheHUPwebsiteforweb-basedfeaturesrelatedtothisbook Formydaughter,SarahElizabethHogg Contents 1 SocialCommunicationasDance 1 2 GestureandDynamicSystemsTheory 42 3 GestureinCaptiveAfricanGreatApes 84 4 GestureinWildAfricanGreatApes 136 5 TheEvolutionofGesture 177 6 ImaginedFutures 220 Notes 241 Bibliography 255 Acknowledgments 271 Index 273 Illustrations Followingpage176 Ayoungwesterngorillasuckinghisthumb Ayoungwesterngorillaridingonhismother’sback Ayoungwesterngorilladescendingfromhismother’sback BonobosinteractingatWamba,DemocraticRepublicofCongo ChimpanzeesattheYerkesPrimateCenterinAtlanta

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Mother and infant negotiate over food; two high-status males jockey for power; female kin band together to get their way. It happens among humans and it happens among our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, the great apes of Africa. In this eye-opening book, we see precisely how such eve

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