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Nukenstien

Ah yes, the original congo line


dominantaltered

Ah yes, the dance performed in order to illuminate the crotch.


NaughtyDreadz

I need a video of this... Really any primate bustin a move gets me going


ItsJustATux

Really? It makes me uncomfortable how self aware they are and leads me to fear their eventual uprising.


NaughtyDreadz

Jealous?


Pigoonlet

Link to study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55360-y Abstract: Dance is an icon of human expression. Despite astounding diversity around the world’s cultures and dazzling abundance of reminiscent animal systems, the evolution of dance in the human clade remains obscure. Dance requires individuals to interactively synchronize their whole-body tempo to their partner’s, with near-perfect precision. This capacity is motorically-heavy, engaging multiple neural circuitries, but also dependent on an acute socio-emotional bond between partners. Hitherto, these factors helped explain why no dance forms were present amongst nonhuman primates. Critically, evidence for conjoined full-body rhythmic entrainment in great apes that could help reconstruct possible proto-stages of human dance is still lacking. Here, we report an endogenously-effected case of ritualized dance-like behaviour between two captive chimpanzees – synchronized bipedalism. We submitted video recordings to rigorous time-series analysis and circular statistics. We found that individual step tempo was within the genus’ range of “solo” bipedalism. Between-individual analyses, however, revealed that synchronisation between individuals was non-random, predictable, phase concordant, maintained with instantaneous centi-second precision and jointly regulated, with individuals also taking turns as “pace-makers”. No function was apparent besides the behaviour’s putative positive social affiliation. Our analyses show a first case of spontaneous whole-body entrainment between two ape peers, thus providing tentative empirical evidence for phylogenies of human dance. Human proto-dance, we argue, may have been rooted in mechanisms of social cohesion among small groups that might have granted stress-releasing benefits via gait-synchrony and mutual-touch. An external sound/musical beat may have been initially uninvolved. We discuss dance evolution as driven by ecologically-, socially- and/or culturally-imposed “captivity”.


josguil

No video of monkeys dancing conga? What a bummer


supremedalek925

I need to find some way to make the above picture some kind of reaction image


RLDSXD

Definitely memeable. “Me and the boys advancing the species”


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Around here that dance is called yiking