Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man

[Aaron LeClair]

"Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure."

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on apes that write | Video on TED.com


They only seem to walk upright when their hands are full though I noticed.

 

[mike]

i first came accross her work watching the BBC doco Chimps are people too

http://au.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F8A20372F5293FCB

fascinating stuff

 

[ddd999]

 

[Anubis]

Weird. I thought they were already in charge.