China News Service, Beijing, April 9th (Reporter Sun Zifa) What does it mean that people often see gorillas beating their chests with their fists? · Natural Springer's open access online academic journal "Science Report" best new zoological published a research paper that mountain to gorillas or thump his chest to exchange information about itself.
The new research paper published a zoology, said the mountain to gorillas or thump his chest in order to exchange information about itself.
In the past, people believed that mountain gorillas hit their chests to exchange information, but the exact nature of the information was not clear.
The corresponding author of the paper, Edward Wright of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, and colleagues, from January 2014 to July 2016, observed and recorded 25 wild male silverback gorillas.
The study found that males with larger bodies have a significantly lower frequency of chest-beating sounds than males with smaller bodies.
The author of the paper believes that gorillas may be able to use the sound of thumping their chests to communicate with each other in the tropical jungle where they live, even though they cannot see each other.
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