Cross-population variation in usage of a call combination: evidence of signal usage flexibility in wild bonobos by Isaac Schamberg, Martin Surbeck, Simon W. Townsend

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Les signaux des primates non humains peuvent-ils avoir une signification arbitraire comme les mots humains ? Une approche affective by Christine Sievers, Thibaud Gruber

“…We will tackle the question of why complex imitation learning and natural pedagogy is not necessary for animal signals to be arbitrarily meaningful. We will also argue that the framework of ASL – Affective Social Learning – can help us determine whether simple forms of learning and passive forms of (indirect) teaching hinging on affective states of the teacher are involved, allowing for an arbitrary character of nonhuman signals.…”
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