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Chimpanzees spontaneously synchronize their actions, like walking pace, with others. This unconscious interpersonal coordination, or entrainment, is shared with humans and may support complex joint actions.

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Area of Science:

  • Primate behavior
  • Social cognition
  • Evolutionary anthropology

Background:

  • Humans and many animals exhibit spontaneous interpersonal coordination during social activities.
  • While chimpanzees excel at goal-oriented joint actions, simpler forms of coordination are less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether chimpanzees spontaneously synchronize their actions while walking together.
  • To explore the influence of social relationships on the strength of this coordination.

Main Methods:

  • Observing walking behavior of two chimpanzee groups in semi-natural conditions.
  • Analyzing individual walking speed and relative phase during conspecific locomotion.
  • Assessing social relationships and their correlation with coordination.

Main Results:

  • Chimpanzees walked faster with a conspecific than alone.
  • A tendency for action coordination was observed, indicated by relative phase distribution around 0°.
  • Coordination was stronger when walking with a partner versus independently.
  • Inter-limb entrainment was more pronounced between similar-aged individuals.

Conclusions:

  • Chimpanzees exhibit spontaneous temporal coordination of actions during locomotion.
  • This unconscious entrainment is shared with humans and may be foundational for more complex joint actions.