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  2. Humanzee - Wikipedia

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    The humanzee (sometimes chuman, manpanzee or chumanzee) is a hypothetical hybrid of chimpanzee and human, thus a form of human–animal hybrid.Serious attempts to create such a hybrid were made by Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov in the 1920s, [1] and possibly by researchers in China in the 1960s, though neither succeeded.

  3. Project Nim (film) - Wikipedia

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    Project Nim is a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh. [3] It tells the life story of a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky, who was the center of a 1970s research project to determine whether a primate could learn to speak using American Sign Language. [4]

  4. Lucy (chimpanzee) - Wikipedia

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    A year after leaving Lucy, Carter returned with a few of Lucy's belongings such as her mirror. Lucy and a group of chimpanzees greeted her and Lucy embraced her fervently, then left with the other chimpanzees without turning back, which Carter interpreted as Lucy having adapted to life as a chimpanzee.

  5. Nim Chimpsky - Wikipedia

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    Nim Chimpsky [1] (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee used in a study to determine whether chimps could learn a human language, American Sign Language (ASL). The project was led by Herbert S. Terrace of Columbia University with linguistic analysis by psycholinguist Thomas Bever .

  6. Great ape personhood - Wikipedia

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    Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the great ape family: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes , evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins , philosophers Paola Cavalieri and ...

  7. March of Progress - Wikipedia

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    The caption below the image reads "We will not allow ourselves to be made into monkeys!" Riley Black, writing for Scientific American, argues that the idea of a "march of progress", as depicted in the 1965 Time-Life illustration, dates back to the medieval great chain of being and the 19th century idea of the "missing link" in the fossil record ...

  8. Inside Tonka's life after 'Chimp Crazy': Vegan meals ... - AOL

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    Because Tonka was owned by a chimpanzee breeder, Tavares suspects he has numerous children; his paternal relationship to the two apes at Save the Chimps was established through information ...

  9. Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project - Wikipedia

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    In 1979, the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project was founded with a group of nine chimps on an island, including a chimpanzee raised as a human called Lucy. From the beginning, the chimpanzees were temporarily housed in the Abuko Nature Reserve , in The Gambia , where no chimpanzees were released.