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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills
Authors: William A. Hillix, Duane M. Rumbaugh
Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4512-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47739-3Published: 31 December 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3400-0Published: 09 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-4512-2Published: 17 April 2013
Series ISSN: 1574-3489
Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 310
Topics: Zoology, Anthropology, Linguistics, general, Cognitive Psychology