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David Susskind. Tonight Susskind interviews a trained chimpanzee in a program called "A Conversation With a Chimp." Susskind and a chimp: there's your straight line, now play with it. Ch. 2. 10 p.m., 2 hours...
...Fred Muggs, where are you? TV Host Mike Douglas, in Planet of the Apes makeup, strode onstage last week at Philadelphia's KYW-TV studios to tape his daily talk show. His first guest was Trainer Bill Hampton with Marvin the Magnificent, a 100-lb. chimp. To the delight of the audience, Marvin recognized a pal right away. He stroked Mike's unusually pale paw consideringly, then sat back on his haunches and let out a few friendly howls. "The volume could have parted your hair," said Mike later. When Douglas mimicked...
...been found: The gorilla, a shy creature not at all like King Kong, was a legendary jungle man until authenticated in the middle of the 19th century, and only in the last decade were reports of proto-pygmies in Tanzania born out by the discovery of the Gombe stream chimp. Napier estimates that a population of 500-1000 Bigfoot could explain all the footprints and still jibe with the difficulty of direct observation. There's simply...
...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...
...Perhaps one day Lana or another chimp can act as an interpreter between their world and ours...