Graphical abstract illustrating the social consequences of infant kidnapping in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada). The study monitors a 28-day period divided into a 14-day pre-kidnapping phase and ...

The alarm call sequences of titi monkeys (genera Plecturocebus, Callicebus and Cheracebus) have sparked important debates over whether they exhibit parallels with human language. Some researchers con...

Despite increasing awareness of animal welfare, there are vast discrepancies between legal protections and recommended practices for different species…

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Aujourd’hui, direction la Namibie , à la rencontre du guépard ! 🐆 Maître de la vitesse, ce félin élancé fend la savane comme une flèche. Avec ses ...

Comment décoder le croassement des corbeaux, les dialectes des bonobos ou le chant des baleines Quand les animaux prennent la parole … Un formidable voyage au cœur de la communication et de la conscie...

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a widely recognised coding scheme for analysing human facial behaviour, providing an objective method to quantify discrete movements associated with facial mu...

AbstractLanguage is a combinatorial system governed by sets of conventionalized rules. Recognizing, generalizing, and applying these syntactic rules is fun

Découvrez un extrait de l’ouvrage « Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! » où l’on se demande si les animaux peuvent utiliser une forme rudimentaire de syntaxe.

<p>Dans Quand les animaux prennent la parole !, publié aux éditions Apogée, Alban Lemasson et Maël Leroux nous parlent du langage animal, bien plus complexe que ce que nous imaginions… […]</p>

A key feature of language is our capacity to process syntactic relationships between words, whether they are directly sequential (‘adjacent dependencies’) or separated by other words (‘non-adjacent de...

A key feature of language is our capacity to process syntactic relationships between words, whether they are directly sequential (‘adjacent dependencies’) or separated by other words (‘non-adjacent de...

Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...

Recent studies showed that some species of birds can combine two distinct calls (alert and recruitment calls) into a mobbing sequence that triggers mo…