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erronis

(16,844 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 10:01 AM Sep 24

Researchers determine female gibbons dance for attention

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-female-gibbons-attention.html

A trio of researchers, one a zoologist, another a primatologist and the third a linguistics professor, from Institut Jean Nicod, Heinrich Heine University and the University of Oslo, respectively, have discovered that female gibbons engage in a strange type of robotic dancing.

In their paper posted on the bioRxiv preprint server, Camille Coye, Kai Caspar and Pritty Patel-Grosz describe the dancing they observed and theorize possible reasons for the behavior.

Many types of animals, from birds, to spiders and insects, have been observed engaging in what looks like dancing. And one thing most of them have in common is that the dancing is done by males, generally as a means of attracting a mate. In this new study, the research team has found that adult female gibbons sometimes dance for no other reason than to get attention.


Uh. Isn't that the same reason us humans do it?


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Researchers determine female gibbons dance for attention (Original Post) erronis Sep 24 OP
The dance certainly got my attention. I'm not sure what that means... Ramsey Barner Sep 24 #1
I did notice that the dancer like to expose herself while jerking around. erronis Sep 24 #2
Well did she score? Did she get a phone number? Or at least a cocktail? Oopsie Daisy Sep 24 #3

erronis

(16,844 posts)
2. I did notice that the dancer like to expose herself while jerking around.
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 11:05 AM
Sep 24

Not saying that it means anything, but.....

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