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How chimpanzees to communicate with gestures

July 4, 2014 Last update at 6:56 BST

Researchers at the University of St Andrews say they use the meaning of gestures, the wild chimpanzees, have translated to communicate.

The results, published in the journal Current Biology, suggest that monkeys used 66 different gestures to represent certain messages 19.

The team led by Dr. Catherine Hobaiter led studied hours of footage of wild chimpanzees in Uganda.

Informa Victoria Gill.