Jingszo !

“I don’t know.”

“I want that one—no, that one, over there.”

“Did she really just say what I think she said?”

These phrases can be said with words, but they’re just as easily communicated via gestures such as shrugging, pointing, and raising your eyebrows.

But we humans aren’t the only ones who move our bodies to convey meaning; several other primates do it, too.

When presented with a tray of apples placed just out of reach, semicaptive elephants used a variety of gestures to communicate with experimenters until they received their treats.