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Dogs (Canis familiaris), but Not Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Understand Imperative Pointing Katharina C. Kirchhofer*, Felizitas Zimmermann, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Abstract Chimpanzees routinely follow the gaze of humans to outside targets. However, in most studies using object choice they fail to use communicative gestures (e.g. pointing) to find hidden food. Chimpanzees’ failure to do this may be due to several difficulties with this paradigm. They may, for example, misinterpret th