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357 books · 56 voters · list created September 14th, 2009 by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (votes) .
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message 1: by Thom (new)

Thom Dunn I will search for titles on "talking" chimps, i.e., chimps who can sign and do , last I heard, learning up to 400 words.....Exciting in that they not only sign individual words but can "slot" words together in new combinations, sentence creation ! Carl Sagan asked, "Why are chimpanzees in jail" ? Damn good question. Out.


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Chimpanzees' human style communication (and their being in, uh, jail) is actually a major theme in Debbie Lee Wesselmann's novel "Captivity," which is set in a South Carolina chimp sanctuary and whose protagonist is a woman whose father used to engage in research into that area, to the extent of taking a female chimp into his home and treating her as a sort of "sister" to his kids. Fascinating indeed!


message 3: by Bettie (last edited Sep 15, 2009 05:36AM) (new)

Bettie This is the best list yet for jogging my memory of past reads - so many I had forgotten to add to my 'read'.

Thanks


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Thanks to you, in turn! :)


message 5: by Thom (new)

Thom Dunn When I looked a second time at this list I saw many titles I had neglected the first time I voted....Remember, Apes are people too.

Bulletin ! Did y'all see that new experiment where chimps can recall a scrambled array of numbers 1 thru 10 flawlessly, better than any human but a savant ?


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) http://www.instructables.com/communit...

Monkeys also perform additions essentially the same way we do ...

http://www.instructables.com/communit...

They're really amazing creatures!


message 7: by [deleted user] (new)

Themis-Athena wrote: "http://www.instructables.com/communit...

Monkeys also perform additions essentially the same way we do ...

http://www.instructables.com/communit......"


Genetics something like 99% the same which creeps me out! LOL




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