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Hasn't there been a healthy bit a skepticism toward the whole "apes signing" thing recently?

*of skepticism. Sigh.

Call me when they arm gorillas

Why did they include a picture of Patrick Ewing with the story?

The only words he knew:

Obit said " He was great at Charades and more fun than a barrel of . . .
Well, you know . . ."

I'm shocked.

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

Will there be an ape funeral? I would like to be able to say that I have been to at least one ape funeral in my life.

Wouldn't it be a necropsy not an autopsy, being as how we're not the same species?

/Almost said "we're not apes"
//Saving trolling-the-creationists response for another day

PRAY

FOR

MOJO

Need_MindBleach: Hasn't there been a healthy bit a skepticism toward the whole "apes signing" thing recently?

Has there? Not something I really follow, but I kind of liked the idea that they were much smarter than most people think. As I am a lazy bastard, I'll need you to do some research on this and present it to me by next week. I'll need source material for all references, and I want it double spaced, printed on quality paper, and most importantly, in comic sans.

I just watched this documentary where a bunch of signing apes took over the planet....

Should help these researchers in their work: Link

letmenot: I just watched this documentary where a bunch of signing apes took over the planet....

Leave Congress to the Politics tab.

 

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RIP Monkey Man

Dar?

Was he from the village to the North? Did he have ferrets with him?

FatherChaos: sex

Why does this one seem to include only one kind of sex?

Because it's too complicated to sign "reverse cowgirl" to a deaf chick.

I don't know how it works for y'all but the title of this thread kinda looks like bug poop on my machine...

This chimpanzee is probably an inspiration for the 1980's movie "Project X." (Absolutely no relation to the recent drunken cesspool of a movie.) It's the one with the yonug hot Helen Hunt people!

Amy sad


/stop eating my sesame cake

Damn dirty Ape.

Am I the only one who thought the headline had something to do with UFIA?

Was this headline referring to Michael Jackson's moonwalked or something? I can only think of when bubbles the chimp goes on his shoulder and points to where you need to go

It's a dead monkey.......me no feel sad, subbie.

jprogram
It's the one with the yonug hot Helen Hunt people!

She had great yonugs at the time

one of obamas half brothers?

What's really brilliant is that if you dig around there's unicode you'd never see on a ⌨ 

/Hope that works past the preview.

Deacon Blue: Need_MindBleach: Hasn't there been a healthy bit a skepticism toward the whole "apes signing" thing recently?

Has there? Not something I really follow, but I kind of liked the idea that they were much smarter than most people think. As I am a lazy bastard, I'll need you to do some research on this and present it to me by next week. I'll need source material for all references, and I want it double spaced, printed on quality paper, and most importantly, in comic sans.

I'm at CWU right now, where this chimp institute is, and just finishing up an anthropology course on primate social behavior. One of the things that got me fascinated in the subject was reading this book, written by one of the founders of the CHCI. It's been shown pretty conclusively that not only are chimpanzees capable of using language (sign), but they use it to communicate with one another (not just humans), can teach it to their offspring, invent their own signs, are capable of complex emotional expression and social relationships and at least some abstract thought/language, etc. Check out that book if you're interested, it's one of the best modern books on chimpanzee behavior, and a fascinating read in general.

I've been to the CHCI a few times, and Dar was the one (I think) that liked to run up and bang the glass to startle the kids. Sad...

↑ & ↓ & ↻

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RIP Monkey Man

Awesome. That was my first cassette tape.

...And now Nothing But Flowers is stuck in my head. Not bad, not bad.

BlackMtnMan: It's a dead monkey.......me no feel sad, subbie.

Didn't do so well in the natural sciences, I see.

this thread is making me wish I didn't uninstall that Simplified Mandarin plug-in.

Wow, he was two years younger than I. Really makes you think.

jprogram: This chimpanzee is probably an inspiration for the 1980's movie "Project X." (Absolutely no relation to the recent drunken cesspool of a movie.) It's the one with the yonug hot Helen Hunt people!

Oh, I don't know. Helen Hunt's pretty yonug in the present.

Dar was cool. He really was. I'm going to miss him.

"Ugly gorillas! Ugly! GO AWAY!"

jprogram: This chimpanzee is probably an inspiration for the 1980's movie "Project X." (Absolutely no relation to the recent drunken cesspool of a movie.) It's the one with the yonug hot Helen Hunt people!

I figured 'yonug' is more hip and it's soooo not a typo. Nope.

/spelling nazis EVERYwear!

He was truly a Master of Beasts.

BassChild: I'm at CWU right now, where this chimp institute is, and just finishing up an anthropology course on primate social behavior. One of the things that got me fascinated in the subject was reading this book, written by one of the founders of the CHCI. It's been shown pretty conclusively that not only are chimpanzees capable of using language (sign), but they use it to communicate with one another (not just humans), can teach it to their offspring, invent their own signs, are capable of complex emotional expression and social relationships and at least some abstract thought/language, etc.

I've heard a fair amount of criticism that these sign language research projects don't release enough of their raw data, and that a lot of their signing needs to be interpreted by specially trained researchers (i.e. the project's own personnel) and that outside sign language experts are only given selected snippets of footage.

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At least he has more dramatic range than Kristen Stewart.

jprogram: jprogram: This chimpanzee is probably an inspiration for the 1980's movie "Project X." (Absolutely no relation to the recent drunken cesspool of a movie.) It's the one with the yonug hot Helen Hunt people!

I figured 'yonug' is more hip and it's soooo not a typo. Nope.

/spelling nazis EVERYwear!

Just blame all the vodak you drank before typing.

Ima_Lurker: Silly Jesus: [0.tqn.com image 800x571]

At least he has more dramatic range than Kristen Stewart.





has more range than Stewart and January Jones. Not that hard to do.