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Ape House and author Sara Gruen

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Uploaded by on Jun 30, 2010

Bestselling author Sara Gruen's new novel Ape House comes out in September. The book was inspired by the bonobos and scientific research at Great Ape Trust in Des Moines. In this video Sara and scientist Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh talk about Ape House and Great Ape Trust's language competent bonobos.

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  • All my friends are great apes. Humans are great apes.

  • FINALLY humans are beginning to work out that other animals can understand us and communicate in their own way. If only all of the apes abused, orphaned, tested on and tortured could speak to us. They tried - they screamed and cried...But we only seem to believe them when they use OUR words.

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  • Will the book be made into a movie?

  • I'm impressed, I couldn't even read those symbols.

  • Wow, I'm a big fan of bonobos and this video is a small insight to how special our closest living cousins are. Loz

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