Got Facebook or Twitter?
your friends updated with all your activity on FanBox.
It's free and takes less than 10 seconds!
|
Got Facebook or Twitter?
Got Facebook or Twitter?your friends updated with all your activity on FanBox. It's free and takes less than 10 seconds! |
||
About this Author
You have rated this blog:
You have not yet rated this blog.
Rate it: Rate 1 Star Rate 2 Stars Rate 3 Stars Rate 4 Stars Rate 5 Stars
Click a
to change your rating
Tell others why you gave this rating (optional):
Tell others why you gave this rating (optional):
Tell others why you gave this rating (optional):
The Colchester Zoo in England is home to a community of mandrills, the largest of the monkeys. One of these mandrills, a female named Milly, began covering her eyes with her hand when she was three. A dozen years later Milly and her zoo mates continue to perform this gesture, which appears to mean “do not disturb.” The signal is the first gesture with cultural roots reported in monkeys.
Culture accounts for behavioral differences that are geographic, rather’s
You are now following this blog.
Adult content and certain language are not permitted in premium blog posts.
Why? In order to fulfill our objective of helping you earn money, we have to abide by mobile carrier regulations.
In order to publish this post, please remove all offensive language and adult references, by modifying any yellow highlighted text. We apologize if our automated system flagged something it really shouldn’t have.
|
Share
Believe it or not, there are no posts about:Why not create one yourself?
What are you passionate about?
You cannot enter offensive language.
|
||
|
Success!
|
||
2 Comments
Is this gesture unique to this one group of Mandrills or have other groups exhibited various forms of gestures? Is humans what came first the ability to sign or the ability to verbalize? Although sign language does not play a dominate role in communications, it is a language that is used among the members of the hearing impaired community. What is the history of sign language in the human community, and are there similarities in the development of sign in both the Mandrills and their human counterparts? As far as Milly and her "do not disturb" sign gesture, does she have any other sign gestures that is practiced among the various members of her group?
the great post