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Roger Fouts

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in Sacramento, The United States

June 08, 1943

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Roger S. Fouts is a retired American primate researcher. He was co-founder and co-director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) in Washington, and a professor of psychology at the Central Washington University. He is best known for his role in teaching Washoe the chimpanzee to communicate using a set of signs taken from American sign language.

Fouts is an animal rights advocate, citing the New Zealand Animal Welfare Act as a model for legal rights for the Great Apes (Hominidae), and campaigning with British primatologist Jane Goodall for improved conditions for chimpanzees. He has written on animal law and on the ethics of animal testing. He is also an adviser to the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

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	Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills 4.48 avg rating — 2,103 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Ape Project Census: Recognition for the Uncounted by Jane Goodall, Roger Fouts, Francine Patterson 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sign Language and Language Acquisition in Man and Ape: New Dimensions in Comparative Pedolinguistics by Fred C. C. Peng, Roger Fouts, Duane M Rumbaugh liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1978 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sobre el lenguaje de los antropoides - Investigaciones sobre los rudimentos del lenguaje en los monos superiores by Víctor Sánchez de Zavala (Editor), Roger Fouts, R. Allen Gardner it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making the Corps/Ruth: A Portrait/Next of Kin/Down at the End of Lonely Street (Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction, Volume 47: 1998) by Thomas Ricks, Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author), Roger Fouts 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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