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Chantek (December 17, 1977 – August 7, 2017), [1] born at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, was a male hybrid Sumatran/Bornean orangutan [2] who demonstrated a number of intellectual skills, including the use of several signs adapted from American Sign Language (ASL).
Miles was raised by her brother and has two other non-biological brothers. [1] In 1978, she earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of Connecticut. [2] Since 1993, she has lived in Atlanta, Georgia in order to be able to visit Chantek after he was transferred to the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and was sharing the responsibility for Chantek with her colleague Ann ...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Chantek, a male orangutan who was among the first apes to learn sign language, could clean his room and memorized the way to a fast-food restaurant, died on Monday at age 39 ...
The Mind of an Ape is a 1983 book by David Premack and his wife Ann James Premack. The authors argue that it is possible to teach language to (non-human) great apes.They write: "We now know that someone who comprehends speech must know language, even if he or she cannot produce it."
Chantek (1977–2017)—orangutan, involved with language research and ApeNet language-using great ape ambassador; Enos (died 1962)—chimpanzee, 1961 NASA Project Mercury orbiter, the only chimpanzee and the third primate to orbit the Earth [4]
Ah Meng died on 8 February 2008 due to old age. She was 47 years old, and was survived by two sons, Hsing Hsing (who died of diabetic complications at the Perth Zoo in 2017) and Satria, and three daughters, Medan, Hong Bao (named for the reddish hair orangutans have that shares the same colour as the red envelopes given to relatives during the Lunar New Year), and Sayang (darling), 12 ...
Kanzi was born to Lorel and Bosandjo at Yerkes Field Station at Emory University in 1980. Shortly after birth, Kanzi was stolen and adopted by a more dominant female, Matata, the matriarch of the group.
Nim Chimpsky [1] (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee used in a study to determine whether chimps could learn a human language, American Sign Language (ASL).