ENGLISH

Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills

By Duane M. Rumbaugh , William A. Hillix

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2003
ISBN
0306477394, 9780306477393
Google Books ID
MluTYjQ6qVUC
Open Library ID
OL17109853M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4369842 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
316\316
DPI
144
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

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.

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