Sign Langauge and Washoe - the beginning.

This video segment is the first of a series I present the wonderful work of Dr. R. Allen Gardner, Dr. Beatrix T. Gardner, and Dr. Roger Fouts who taught the highly gestural language of American Sign Language to Washoe, a young chimpanzee who was eager to enjoy the social interactions that encourages all healthy young hominids to develop the communication curriculum of their culture.

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Education

Tags:

• Washoe
• Roger Fouts
• Allen
• Gardner
• Beatrix
• American Sign Language
• ASL
• gesture
• chimpanzee
• communication
• great ape
• comparative psychology
• monkey
• biological anthropology
• culture
• sociality
• evolutionary psychology
• gorilla
• J Patrick Malone
• evolution
• Washoe (chimpanzee)

[Wotanraven]

Great apes need to be included in human rights laws.

Thanks for the upload.

[MegaOrwell1984]

I actually watched this in psychology class.

[PranjalVSV]

"More" .. :)

[bonoboperson]

this is awsome! 

[dannienewt]

I'm reading Next Of Kin right now. Washoe is amazing!

[kiren77]

washoe is so cute

[sleepyhead9876]

thank u :)

[jtack19791]

I'm in a linguistics class currently and I was amazed by Washoe's abilities. There is so much more to learn.

[Bidone1967]

Very interesting video.

Thanks for sharing!