Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxiv
Variable expression of linguistic laws in ape gesture: a case study from chimpanzee sexual solicitation.
A. Safryghin, C. P. Cross, B. Fallon…·C. Hobaiter
The paper examines Zipf's law of brevity and Menzerath's law in chimpanzee sexual solicitation gestures, finding support for Menzerath's law but not Zipf's, suggesting context-dependent communication patterns.
DOI 10.1098/rsos.220849