Word: chimp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keys of a typewriter at random for a long enough time, it will eventually peck out Hamlet. Lana, a playful three-year-old female chimpanzee at Emory University's Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, will never accomplish that feat, but she is already one up on the hypothetical chimp. Under the tutelage of the center's scientists, Lana is rapidly learning how to read and write in a brand-new language called Yerkish...
...Lana has learned about 75 words-which her trainers regard as only a start. As they teach Lana more words they hope to increase their understanding of how chimps actually learn a language, and to gain new insights into how those skills are acquired by humans. What they learn could eventually be useful in teaching youngsters with language difficulties. It could also open a new channel of communication between man and animal. "Wouldn't you like to know what a chimp thinks about?" says Georgia State University Psychologist Duane M. Rumbaugh...
...have heard the cliche that if a chimp typed continuously for a given length of time, the odds are that sooner or later an intelligent word or phrase would result...
Waiting for the Chimp...
...worst disasters of the television season be redeemed? January is when the programmers try, by inserting midseason replacements for the shakiest shows. By last week, all eight of the substitute entries were on the air. Among them: a dentist whose family adopts a chimpanzee (Me and the Chimp), a put-upon executive (The Don Rickles Show), a parapsychologist's bouts with the supernatural (The Sixth Sense), and movies, movies, movies. If any trend was apparent, it was simple desperation. But a blessed few shows revealed something more...