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Elephants gesture with an intention to communicate their desires, study finds

Humans have long mastered the art of expressing their goals and needs through both language and gestures. A similar behavior is also observed in non-human primates, who use complex gestures to convey ...
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Elephants Ask Humans for Food Using Non-Verbal Gestures — A First in Non-Primates

A point, a wave, a thumbs-up, or a nod of the head. Human communication is filled with nonverbal cues and gestures. Now, scientists have recorded semi-captive elephants intentionally adopting ...
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Apple is working on a custom hand gestures feature for future head-mounted devices

The United States Trademark and Patent Office (USPTO) has today approved a new patent application from Apple which is related to custom hand gestures for head-mounted devices. The head-mounted devices ...
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Do elephants make deliberate gestures to ask for things? Our study says yes

Vesta Eleuteri is affiliated to the University of Vienna and receives funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under the grant "DK Cognition and Communication 2": W1262-B29 (10.55776/W1262). We ...