One chimpanzee can convey to others, who have no other source of information, the presence, direction, quality, and relative quantity or preference value of distant hidden objects that he himself has not seen for several minutes. Exchange of information about objects and events probably requires no human training, or specialized ethological displays, or language.
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Emil W. Menzel (1971) studied this question.
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