Sentence examples for teaching a chimp from inspiring English sources
Long discussion of the possibility of teaching a chimp to talk.
And, in the late sixties, Beatrice and Allen Gardner, researchers at the University of Nevada, decided to teach a chimp American Sign Language.
We see why "Doctor Dolittle" heads inexorably off its cliff, as six months are squandered trying to teach a chimp to cook bacon and eggs in a frying pan; as hundreds of animals trained in California have to be quarantined, much to the filmmakers' surprise, upon arrival on location in England; and as the poor rhinoceros contracts pneumonia.
Given the very different anatomies of the human and chimpanzee larynx, the Gardners suspected that previous experiments had failed because chimps are physically incapable of speech.They therefore decided to try teaching a chimpanzee to sign in the way that deaf people do.
Once, I taught a foster mother chimp how to bottle-feed a baby, and that was successful because chimpanzees are tool-users.
The team taught one chimp of the pair that a token of one color would get her a piece of banana, whereas the other color would get fruit for her and her partner.
The first was to teach the chimps how to use a touchscreen to select different videos.
Some researchers pounced on the study, however, suggesting that chimps couldn't be expected to play fair given the conditions of their captivity, which had taught chimps that they had little control over how much they got to eat, or that they might not be able to understand the complicated tray-pulling apparatus.
"The movie also features a chimp".
"I'm not a chimp psychic".
