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COMMUNICATION Like many other animals, chimps
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use gestures and body language
to communicate with other
Animals communicate with each other in a huge number of different members of their social group.
ways. They make sounds, release odors, use touch, gestures, and body But these intelligent primates also
language, and even produce flashing lights. Communication is an use facial expressions to show
important tool for attracting a mate, holding a social group together, anger, fear, happiness, playfulness,
and hunger, and to indicate their
marking a territory, or alerting other group members to a food
status in the group.
source, rival, or an approaching predator.

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Grimace made
when higher-ranking Stripy tail
chimp approaches
used for
visual signaling

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