A chimpanzee whose ability to learn American Sign Language suggested but did not prove that the animal could engage in humanlike conversation died on Tuesday, The New York Times reported today. The ...

Back in the 1970s, a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky took part in a Columbia University research study called "Project Nim." Project Nim was led by Herbert Terrace, a psychologist at Columbia who was ...

He and his wife and collaborator made headlines with their finding that they could communicate with a young ape using the language of the deaf. By Sam Roberts Washoe was 10 months old when her foster ...

Robert with Onan signing "hat". Source: Robert Ingersoll, with permission. I recently learned of a book by Robert Ingersoll and Antonina Anna Scarnà titled Primatology, Ethics, and Trauma: The ...

Human communication is a complex weave of words and gestures — a mix of vocal and visual signals. "People use vocal and visual communication in a very rich and combined way," says Joseph Mine, a ...

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Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died at the age of 42 at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. Washoe, who first learned a bit of ...

ELLENSBURG, Wash. - A chimpanzee who could talk to people using American Sign Language has died at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. The university's Chimpanzee and Human Communication ...