Gibbons move with rhythm and intention. Dare we say style?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/science/gibbons-dancing-apes.html

by Thevet • 2 years ago

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jerf• 2 years ago

Breaking News from the New York Time's office in Downtown Manhattan: Hey, animals can be pretty graceful, can't they? Wow!

Stay tuned for our upcoming articles "Holy Shit What Is Going On With Hummingbirds?", "We Need To Talk About Lightning Bugs", and "What You Country Bumpkins In Flyover Country Can Learn From My Watching A Squirrel For Three Minutes".

kylebenzle• 2 years ago

You are 100% spot on with your social commentary. Forbes, NYT, Washington Post and more have gone the way of clickbait titles, short-term views of longterm quality.

I hope we will have more and more reporters like Channel 5 News, one of the only news organizations I currently trust.

throaway921• 2 years ago

Dare you say style? Dare you say grace? Dare you say this gibbon...has a funny face?

cjs_ac• 2 years ago

Previous research from Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q5_51J8Hgg

agwp• 2 years ago

Link to the academic research paper on which this is based: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.29.610299v1....

Citation: Dance displays in gibbons: Biological and linguistic perspectives on structured, intentional and rhythmic body movement C. Coye, K.R. Caspar, P. Patel-Grosz bioRxiv 2024.08.29.610299; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.29.610299

Gibbons move with rhythm and intention. Dare we say style?

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