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12th September 2018
10:33am BST

Research published the Animal Cognition journal shows that toddlers and apes share a staggering 89 percent of their gestures and movements.
The study, conducted in the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, showed that when they're learning to communicate, toddlers use a lot of same movements as chimps and apes.
When they're young, babies use up to 52 gestures to convey how they're feeling and out of these, 46 are also shared with apes.
The study reads:
"Children employed 52 distinct gestures, 46 (89 percent) of which are present in the chimpanzee repertoire.
"Like chimpanzees, they used them both singly, and in sequences, and employed individual gestures flexibly towards different goals."