Enculturated Apes
Enculturated Apes Links
- Language Research Center Primate research center studying language acquisition through work with bonobos and chimpanzees. Features a list of publications and ape biographies.
- A Voice for Koko the Gorilla Koko the gorilla had a computer system that enabled her to 'talk' by pressing symbols. This page discusses the program and its development.
- Sign-Language Gorilla Dies Michael, one of only two gorillas to have learned human sign language, died April 20, 2000 at the age of 27. News brief discusses the animal's life.
- Are Nonhuman Species Capable of Language Acquisition? A discussion of the value and validity of ape language research.
- He Talks to the Animals ABCnews.com feature about Roger Fouts of Project Washoe.
- Language in Child and Chimp? General commentary on ape language with transcripts of chats with apes and interviews with ape language researchers.
- Koko the Gorilla The Gorilla Foundation brings interspecies communication to the public through Koko, famous for her sign language skills.
- Language in Apes: How Much Do They Know and How Much Should We Teach Them Introductory overview of ape language research, its history and its practice.
- Non-Human Primates and Language This project is part of a theoretical course on Syntax and Grammatical Theories taught by Prof. Dirk Geeraerts at K.U.Leuven.
- Primate Research Institute: Section of Language and Intelligence Chimpanzee language research projects at Kyoto University. News, pictures and biographies of chimpanzee subjects as well as researchers.
- The Primatech Project A cognitive model of Chantek, a signing orangutan, for an installation at Zoo Atlanta.
- The Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute This institute at Central Washington University cares for five chimpanzees who are being taught American Sign Language.
- Roger & Deborah Fouts: The Washoe Project A pioneering language project with female chimpanzee Washoe.
- ChimpanZoo This Jane Goodall Institute sponsored program for research, enrichment and education, of and for captive chimpanzees, is in Arizona.
- The Case Against the Animal Mind A article by Clive Wynne that argues evidence from the ape sign language studies demonstrates that our closest animal relatives do not have consciousness.
- Chimpanzee and Great Ape Language Resources Includes links, online texts, and ape images. At the Anthropology Department, Brown University
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