Washoe (chimpanzee) Totally Explained

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Washoe (c. September 1965 – October 30, 2007) was a chimpanzee who, it's claimed, was the first non-human to learn to speak a human language, that of American Sign Language. She also passed on some of her knowledge to her adopted son, Loulis. While her use of ASL is confirmed, whether that constituted a usage of language is still disputed.
As part of a research experiment on animal language acquisition, Washoe developed a modest ability to communicate with humans using ASL. She was named for Washoe County, Nevada, where she was raised and taught to use ASL. Washoe had lived at Central Washington University since 1980; on October 31, 2007, officials from the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute on the CWU campus announced that she'd died the previous day at the age of 42..}}
A number of projects have sought to establish ASL or other forms of language in other chimpanzees and also in gorillas and bonobos, as well as in non-primate species such as dolphins, and parrots. In particular, the Nim Chimpsky project failed to replicate the results of Washoe with a chimpanzee in a more "classical" experimental setting, leading to a controversy as to which approach was more appropriate (see the relevant article for more details). It should be noted however, that these experiments, by placing the chimpanzees in a more "classical" setting didn't give as much affection and attention to Nim. It is believed that, with human children, affection and feelings of love during childhood play a significant role in cognitive development. At the same time, the classical setting would shield the experiment from the danger of the Clever Hans Effect, which is a major problem in animal cognition research.

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