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Chimpanzee communications and the evolution of human language (3032 words) |
 | Expecting other great apes to possess some form of these capabilities, he argues, is as absurd as expecting the guinea pig-like hyrax, the elephant's closest living relative, to possess a primitive form of the elephant's trunk. |
| Whether this ape used the left hemisphere of the neocortex for communications, however, is not clear, as the question of which areas of the brain great apes use for communication has not been extensively studied. |
| Language consists of discrete words, while human calls fall along a continuum that stretches from laughter to giggling to snorts to cries to sobs. |
| Saving Dolphins (3569 words) |
| Sue Savage-Rumbaugh wrote in her book, Ape Language, that chimpanzees show at most a fleeting interest in television, and that from their behavior it was not possible to infer that they were seeing anything more than changing patterns or forms. |
| Her own language -trained chimpanzee subjects, Sherman and Austin, only learned to attend to and interpret television scenes after months of exposure in the presence of human companions who reacted to the scenes by exclaiming or vocalizing at appropriate times. |
| The results of the language comprehension work with the bonobo chimpanzee and the dolphin Akeakamai show many similarities, especially in the receptivity of the animals to the language formats used and in their proficiency at responding to sequences of symbols. |
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