Wild chimpanzees, like humans, take fast-paced turns in conversation, and often interrupt each other.
Like humans, wild chimpanzees engage in snappy, turn-taking conversations, where they wait just a fraction of a second for their turn to 'speak'.Scientists who studied their chats in detail found that they took "fast-paced turns" when they exchanged information and also occasionally interrupted one another.
By examining thousands of instances of wild chimpanzees communicating with each other, Prof Hobaiter and her colleagues were able to time the animals' conversations.Chimps had a bigger range in their conversational timings. "The gaps ranged from interrupting the signaller 1,600 milliseconds before they finished their gesture, to taking 8,600 milliseconds to respond," explained Prof Hobaiter.
“So one chimpanzee could gesture to another that they want food, and the other might give them food or, if they feel less generous, respond by gesturing for them to go away.
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