"""Kanzi"offers any number of crucial insights into the workings of the mind.""--"The New York Times Book Review""The remarkable story of the ""talking"" ape who is proving animals can think"Though he cannot physically speak, Kanzi understands an impressive amount of spoken English and communicates [...]
For more than twenty years, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been studying the linguistic and cognitive skills of a number of laboratory-reared primates. Recently, her work with Kanzi (a bonobo) has been acknowledged as having achieved a scientific breakthrough of stunning proportions: Kanzi has acquired lin[...]