Purposive behavior as a basis for objective communication between chimpanzees.
The rate at which a chimpanzee approaches a hidden, distant goal varies according to social conditions and according to whether the goal is a novel object or food. This behavior furnishes a social group with sufficient information for simultaneous and successive disrciminations between leaders and between goals.
D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000502:physiology*