Sentence examples for ape to learn from inspiring English sources

The Des Moines home to seven bonobos, including Kanzi, the first ape to learn language like a child, has launched an internal investigation over allegations that its director, Susan Savage-Rumbaugh, was not caring for the animals properly.

"The groundwork is there for apes to learn new communicative behaviors... and they appear to have some ability to transmit these behaviors through social learning and even transmit the behaviors across generations," Perlman said.

Could any gorilla learn to sign like Koko? Koko and Washoe [the chimpanzee who was the first member of the ape family to learn sign language] were not super-genius apes.

We also watched a PBS video called Ape Genius to learn more about how and why human minds differ from those of our primate relatives.

During the training phase the apes had to learn to find food items in the same locations under the same kind of containers, so that the feature and the spatial cues were confounded.

In our version of the task, the apes had to learn the location of a food reward that was hidden under one of three containers on a platform in front of them.

Indeed, Richard Byrne's wonderful research into gorilla memes has revealed how apes are able to learn useful behaviours from each other without ever understanding what they are for: the explanation of how ape cognition works really is behaviouristic.

Her hypothesis is that our ape brains are programmed to learn from watching the things we don't want to happen to ourselves, and that it's part of "our oral rejection system".

VIEWERS of this summer's Hollywood blockbuster "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" may be surprised to learn that before our earliest ancestors arrived on the scene roughly seven million years ago, apes really did rule the planet.

As any marginalized person in this country comes to learn, aping the mainstream conjoins political and economic benefits.

Osthaus et al. (2005) showed that unlike apes, dogs are able to learn to pull on a string to earn the attached bait but they do not solve the task by virtue of understanding the means end relationship.