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Animal bodies, human minds : ape, dolphin, and parrot language skills /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hillix, William A. (William Allen), 1927-
Other Authors:	Rumbaugh, Duane M., 1929-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2004]
Series:	Developments in primatology.
Subjects:	Animal Communication. Language Development. Behavior, Animal. Sign Language. Animal Experimentation > history. Hominidae > psychology. Dolphins > psychology. Parrots. Communication.

Table of Contents:

A chronology of events in animal language research
An overview of animal language
Language research with nonhuman animals : methods and problems
Early reports about language in animals
Washoe, the first signing chimpanzee
Signs in Oklahoma and Ellensburg
Koko fine sign gorilla
Chimpanzees can write with plastic symbols
Lana learns lexigrams
A cultural approach to language learning
Chantek the beautiful
Ai project : a retrospective of 25 years research on chimpanzee intelligence
Language studies with bottlenosed dolphins
Alex : one small parrot
Evaluations of the ape language research
Where do we stand and where are we going?