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Can Apes Really "Talk" To Humans?
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7:43Now PlayingWhat can we learn from the controversial history of ape language research?
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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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