Author: Michael Erard

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Society

When Apes Talk: Why Aren’t We More Excited About Animal Language Breakthroughs?

Kanzi converses with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh in 2006 using a portable "keyboard" of arbitrary symbols that Kanzi associates with words.

Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

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