{"id":1605,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/groovy-gibbons-have-human-dance-moves\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","slug":"groovy-gibbons-have-human-dance-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/groovy-gibbons-have-human-dance-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Groovy gibbons have human dance moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-24 14:02:13<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Gibbons can dance like humans.<BR><br \/>\nScientists have discovered that the Asian apes can&#8217;t resist moving their bodies to a rhythm and have debunked suggestions that only people enjoy the pastime of hitting the dancefloor.<BR><br \/>\nDancing gibbons were first detected by Chinese researchers back in 2016 with video footage of four female animals showing them performing &#8220;conspicuous sequences of twitching movements involving the rump and extremities&#8221; in a bid to attract the attention of a male.<BR><br \/>\nFurther analysis of the gibbon moves shows that the main characteristics of human choreography were present in the apes.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Pritty Patel-Grosz, co-author of the research at the University of Oslo, described the gibbon grooving as &#8220;a cross between a robot dance and vogueing&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nShe told The Times newspaper: &#8220;What makes our observations exciting is the finding that the gibbon dance is clearly intentional, rhythmic and structured, so it has a number of characteristics that it shares with human dance.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;They are the only species of non-human primates that we know of that have dances like this.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-24 14:02:13 Gibbons can dance like humans. Scientists have discovered that the Asian apes can&#8217;t resist moving their bodies to a rhythm and have debunked suggestions that only people enjoy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}