Animal bodies, human minds : ape, dolphin, and parrot language skills
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Animal bodies, human minds : ape, dolphin, and parrot language skills
(Developments in primatology : progress and prospects)
Kluwer Academic/Plenum, c2004
Available at 11 libraries
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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  France
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Several books chronicle attempts, most of them during the last 40 years, to teach animals to communicate with people in a human-designed language. These books have typically treated only one or two species, or even one or a few research projects. We have provided a more encompassing view of this field. We also want to reinforce what other authors, for example Jane Goodall, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Penny Patterson, Birute Galdikas, and Roger and Deborah Fouts, so passionately convey about our responsibility for our closest animal kin.
This book surveys what was known, or believed about animal language throughout history and prehistory, and summarizes current knowledge and the controversy around it. The authors identify and attempt to settle most of the problems in interpreting the animal behaviours that have been observed in studies of animal language ability.
Table of Contents
1. A Chronology of Events in Animal Language Research.- 2. An Overview of Animal Language.- 3. Language Research with Nonhuman Animals: Methods and Problems.- 4. Early Reports about Language in Animals.- 5. Washoe, the First Signing Chimpanzee.- 6. Signs in Oklahoma and Ellensburg.- 7. Koko Fine Sign Gorilla.- 8. Chimpanzees can Write with Plastic Symbols.- 9. Lana Learns Lexigrams.- 10. A Cultural Approach to Language Learning.- 11. Chantek the Beautiful.- 12. Ai Project: A Retrospective of 25 Years Research on Chimpanzee Intelligence.- 13. Language Studies with Bottlenosed Dolphins.- 14. Alex: One Small Parrot.- 15. Evaluations of the Ape Language Research.- 16. Where do We Stand and Where Are We Going?.- Cast of Characters.- Human Adults.- Children.- Chimpanzees.- Bonobos.- Gorillas.- Orangutans.- Dolphins.- Horses.- Dogs.- Parrots.- Sea Lions.
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