primates

The Nova documentary Ape Genius showed some pretty remarkable footage of a bonobo named Kanzi who appeared to show some remarkable linguistic ability, including following complex instructions in English without non-verbal cueing. According to the documentary, Kanzi learned to understand...

Just found this article on primates understanding spoken English.

I don't recall seeing this article from the New York Times anywhere here, so if this is a repeat, forgive me. Interesting stuff. The rest of the article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/science/20moral.html

Dr. A. is too modest (ha!) to publicize this, but there will be a limited number of his books for sale at TAM. They have been donated, so 100% of the purchase price goes to JREF.

Chimpanzees are up to 8 times stronger than the average adult human male. Chimpanzees can lift nearly 8 times as much. An average human male would have trouble dead lifting 250lbs but a chimp could dead lift 600lbs with one hand without a problem. Scientists have shown that the actual muscles...

I have seen evidence that convinces me that chimps and gorillas can communicate with signs that approximate American Sign Language better than I can, and probably most of you.