A point, a wave, a thumbs-up, or a nod of the head. Human communication is filled with nonverbal cues and gestures. Now, scientists have recorded semi-captive elephants intentionally adopting ...

Hand movements are often treated as a nervous tic to be suppressed, but a growing body of research suggests they are one of the most powerful tools a speaker has. Across lab experiments, large-scale ...

But whether elephants gesture intentionally to others to communicate goals in mind has not been systematically explored before. My colleagues and I study the cognition and communication of animals to ...

In a corner of the bustling showroom floor at CES 2025, I felt like an orchestra conductor. As I subtly waved my arm from side to side, notes rang out on the cello displayed on the giant screen in ...

Inclining the head and using hand gestures to communicate more complex meanings The study involved 45 typically developing children and 34 children with developmental language disorders between the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...