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Wild Japanese tits display ‘human’ after-you gesture

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ACCORDING TO NEW research from the University of Tokyo in Japan, the Japanese tit (Parus minor) uses wing movements as a gesture to convey die message “after you”.

Recent studies onsignal “after you”, require complex cognitive skills and there has been no conclusive evidence supporting the existence of such abilities in animals other than humans.

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