Zebras bob their heads at each other to signal cooperation

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Zebras bob their heads at each other to signal cooperation

Zebras seem to communicate by bobbing their heads

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Zebras bob their heads to attract attention and initiate social interactions such as grooming or moving together. This may be one of the few documented examples of signals that animals use to coordinate their behaviour.

The capacity for multiple animals to focus on shared goals or objects in their environment, known as ****** attention, is key to cooperation in humans, but it has rarely been investigated in wild animals.

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