From Gutsick Gibbon.
Every beast is special, some are just more special than others.
A Selection of Sources (sources for the compilation to Grant Steller’s Every Living Breathing moment found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzHSeXjOTQ0&t=8s):
Tools
Environmental variability supports chimpanzee behavioural diversity, 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18176-3
Identifying functional and regional differences in chimpanzee stone tool technology, 2022
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.220826
New evidence on the tool-assisted hunting exhibited by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in a savannah habitat at Fongoli, Sénégal
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.140507
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235215462200050X
Planning abilities of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in tool-using contexts
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-023-01106-4
Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58988-7
Religion/Ritual/Art/Music
Unearthing calfburialsamong Asian Elephants Elephas maximusLinnaeus, 1758 (Mammalia: Proboscidea: Elephantidae) innorthern Bengal, India
https://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/8826/9701
Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00448-8
Dance displays in gibbons: Biological and linguistic perspectives on structured, intentional and rhythmic body movement
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.29.610299v1.full
Spontaneous (minimal) ritual in non-human great apes?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2019.0423
The evolution of human artistic creativity
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2815939/
A group-specific arbitrary tradition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24916739/
Chimpanzees socially learn non-instrumental behaviour from conspecifics
https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/162/6-8/article-p459_2.xml
Sex differences in chimpanzees’ use of sticks as play objects resemble those of children
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(10)01449-1
Theory of Mind
Theory of mind in nonhuman primates
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/theory-of-mind-in-nonhuman-primates/C1372469FEC22923CCF1A80BF72EDF08
Theory of mind in animals: Current and future directions
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wcs.1503
What Cognitive Representations Support Primate Theory of Mind?
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/abstract/S1364-6613(16)00065-6
Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661308000892#:~:text=Introduction,the%20psychological%20functioning%20of%20others.
Wild Chimpanzees Inform Ignorant Group Members of Danger
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211013364
Great apes use self-experience to anticipate an agent’s action in a false-belief test
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910095116
Time-space–displaced responses in the orangutan vocal system
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aau3401
Communication
A gestural repertoire of 1- to 2-year-old human children: in search of the ape gestures
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-018-1213-z
Gelada vocal sequences follow Menzerath’s linguistic law
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1522072113
Campbell’s monkeys concatenate vocalizations into context-specific call sequences
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0908118106
Chimpanzee utterances refute purported missing links for novel vocalizations and syllabic speech
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67005-w
Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp3757
Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv1170
Intro: The Mind Electric by Miracle Musical
http://www.hawaiipartii.com/
Outro: Point Pleasant by Brock Berrigan
http://www.brockberrigan.com/
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