Great ape language
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title:
Great ape language
text:
Research into great ape language has involved teaching chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans to communicate with humans and each other using sign language, physical tokens, lexigrams, and imitative human speech. Some primatologists argue that the use of these communication methods indicate primate "language" ability, though this depends on one's definition of language. The cognitive tradeoff hypothesis suggests that human language skills evolved at the expense of the short-term and worki
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Efforts to teach non-human primates to communicate with humans
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language
date created:
2004-07-26T22:44:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T10:58:58Z
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