The study's chimp –- named Nim Chimpsky -– lived in a Manhattan brownstone with a family who could teach him sign language. Support for LAist comes from Become a sponsor ...

In the 1970s Washoe the chimp became the first non-human to learn to communicate using American sign language. She was taught 350 signs by behavioural scientists and was soon able to construct ...

Cognition The Traumatic Lives of the Famous Sign-Language Using Chimps "We do not have a right. We can only say we have a need." Posted March 5, 2023 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch ...

Humans are often thought to be the only animals capable of language. But it’s difficult to prove a negative like this because we’ll never definitively know the subjective interior monologues ...