{"id":96270,"date":"2019-09-15T19:03:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T02:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/we-may-have-a-basic-form-of-sign-language-in-common-with-chimpanzees"},"modified":"2019-09-15T19:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T02:03:31","slug":"we-may-have-a-basic-form-of-sign-language-in-common-with-chimpanzees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/we-may-have-a-basic-form-of-sign-language-in-common-with-chimpanzees","title":{"rendered":"We may have a basic form of sign language in common with chimpanzees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-may-have-a-basic-form-of-sign-language-in-common-with-chimpanzees2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Clare Wilson<\/p>\n<p>We can communicate with chimps. When put to the test, people can usually understand the meaning of ten common gestures used by chimpanzees.<\/p>\n<p>Human infants also use some of the same gestures before they can talk, although we don\u2019t yet know if their meanings are the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clare Wilson We can communicate with chimps. When put to the test, people can usually understand the meaning of ten common gestures used by chimpanzees. Human infants also use some of the same gestures before they can talk, although we don\u2019t yet know if their meanings are the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}