The study of gestural communication in great apes has provided a rich insight into the evolutionary roots of human language. Apes typically employ an extensive repertoire of innate gestures that are ...
In A Nutshell Kanzi, a 43-year-old bonobo, successfully tracked pretend juice poured between empty cups, choosing the correct ...
He approached his longtime colleague, Benjamin Beck, about his interest in working on great-ape language research, and with Beck's encouragement, helped design the zoo's widely acclaimed Think Tank.
Papers presented at a conference to observe the centenary of the birth of Robert Mearns Yerkes, held at the Yerkes Primate Research Center, Emory University, Oct. 26-27, 1976. Introduction / Austin ...
DES MOINES — A young chimpanzee named Panzee once bit the dashboard of a Jeep belonging to Duane Rumbaugh, leaving teeth marks. Rumbaugh, an author and leader in the study of primates and their ...