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Can Apes Really "Talk" To Humans?

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What can we learn from the controversial history of ape language research?

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SUBMIT A QUESTION HERE

Contribute to a really cool experiment - see if you can interpret chimpanzee gestures!:

Here's a good overview of the ethical and scientific questions around Kanzi and Koko:

Here's Herbert Terrace's famouse Science paper:

The contentious back and forth between Terrace and Penny Patterson

One of Terrace's students takes on Patterson's claims:

A blistering assessment of Terrace's work from moral philosopher Peter Singer:

Evidence that bonobos have mental representations of words:

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