Dogs (Canis familiaris), but not chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), understand imperative pointing.
Chimpanzees routinely follow the gaze of humans to outside targets. However, in most studies using object choice they fail to use communicative gestures (e.g. pointing) to find hidden food. Chimpanzees' failure to do this may be due to several difficulties with this paradigm. They may, for exam...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012
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