The orangutans' charades-like strategy is one way to construct shared meaning from learned or ritualised signals in the absence of language, the researchers concluded. Further investigation of ...

When humans play charades, the game's ban on talk often reduces players to wild gestures in a frustratingly minimalist form of communication. Still, skillful players get the point across eventually.

The embargo time of this release has changed. Please note the new time. When orangutans use gestures to get their point across, they rely on the same basic strategy that people follow in playing the ...

Gina gestured for the banana. When Erica offered her a stick of celery instead, single mother Gina, 42, impatiently gestured again. When Erica held up the banana, Gina clapped. She’s better behaved ...