How Do Chimpanzees Communicate?

Chimpanzees use multitude of communicative cues to make communication. Their primary form of maintaining harmony within the community is featured by body contact. Body contact is such a phenomenon using which they maintain social balances and they preserve close relationships. They may groom with each other for long hours. When they fight, they use biting, kicking, stomping or dragging the opponents along the ground or they may strike with flat hand as well. The looser of the fight usually weep, or crouch humbly or hold out the hands, whereas the winner may touch the looser gently or it may embrace the looser as well after the fights gets over. When two individual chimpanzees get in close after a separation, they may hug, kiss, touch, stroke or hold hands depending on the wavelength they maintain with each other. The chimpanzees may use indirect contact as well. They may communicate through a combination of posture, gesture and noise. The male chimpanzee may swing in the trees, pull down branches. This is primarily done to give the others the impression of his dangerousness, and hence accelerating the male order rank in the community. In general, chimpanzees are social animal. They belong to group. When two groups of chimpanzees meet in the jungle, they express aggression by displaying various cues such as wild dances, rock-throwing, tree trunks beating, fierce noise making etc.