RE: grammatical expressions by chimps

From: Mark M. Mills (mmills@htcomp.net)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 13:49:13 BST

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    Vincent,

    At 12:01 PM 6/1/00 +0100, you wrote:
    > > This would probably require leaving a human infant with a wild chimp
    > > foster mother. Do you want to speculate on the ethics of such an
    > experiment?
    > >
    >Tarzan anyone?

    There is an amusing story in "Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me
    About Who We Are" by Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills, Jane Goodall
    (Introduction). Fouts talks about several chimp babies raised by human
    families. One family had a toddler. After a few months with the baby
    chimp, the baby human had gained an amazing ability to mimic chimp
    vocalizations and mannerisms.

    The family got rid of the chimp.

    Mark

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