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Harvard sandwiched three solid quarters around an ugly second quarter that saw six unanswered Gorilla goals...
Long regarded at the 800-pound gorilla of national political reporting, Apple became the Washington bureau chief for The New York Times last November...
...surprisingly, then, accounts of the first language experiments with apes in the 1970s produced one of the most fractious debates in the history of the behavioral sciences. Washoe the chimp and Koko the gorilla became famous for their linguistic feats using sign language, but scientists argued bitterly over the significance. Did the "speech" of these animals reflect a genuine ability to think symbolically and communicate thought, or was it largely the result of rote conditioning or of cuing -- a la Hans -- by trainers? Skepticism carried the day, and researchers who had dedicated their lives to working with the apes...
Unfortunately, it is impossible to know precisely what goes on in another creature's mind and to what degree it understands the languages it uses. Take the case of the gorilla Koko, first taught 20 years ago to use American Sign Language by psychologist Penny Patterson. On one much discussed occasion, the powerful gorilla had inadvertently knocked a sink off its moorings in her living quarters. Koko signed the words "Kate there bad," pointing to the sink. Was the muscular animal trying, rather implausibly, to shift the blame to one of Patterson's slightly built female assistants...
...SEVERAL HUNDRED REBEL INSURGENTS SUDDENLY decide to do battle in a wildlife preserve filled with apes, is this guerrilla warfare or gorilla warfare? That's a tough question now that Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, home to half the world's surviving population of African mountain gorillas (large, hairy herbivores) has been overrun by guerrillas (somewhat smaller omnivores in camouflage with machine guns...