Table 5.

MRQAP regression models showing predictors of persistence sequence (rate of production per hour spent within 10 m) by rate of response to the gesture between N = 12, 132 dyadic relationships of the chimpanzees

Attribute category/rate of gesture sequence per hour spent in close proximity	Standardized coefficient	Standard error	p
Age similarity	− 0.029	0.086	0.373
Sex similarity	0.042	0.086	0.327
Kinship similarity	− 0.015	0.152	0.437
Oestrous similarity	0.053	0.095	0.275
Response by visual or tactile gesture	− 0.754	0.181	0.001
Response by activity change	1.132	0.048	0.001
Response by vocalisation	0.067	0.019	0.134

Significant p values are indicated in bold