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Panbanisha (November 17, 1985 – November 6, 2012), [1] [2] also known by the lexigram, was a female bonobo that featured in studies on great ape language by Professor Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. Her name is Swahili for "to cleave together for the purpose of contrast."
Kanzi (born October 28, 1980), also known by the lexigram (from the character 太), is a male bonobo who has been the subject of several studies on great ape language. According to Sue Savage-Rumbaugh , a primatologist who has studied the bonobo throughout her life, Kanzi has exhibited advanced linguistic aptitude.
He had already known 256 lexigram symbols by the time Panpanzee and Panbanisha had started their research. [3] This research was conducted by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and her research team. Savage-Rumbaugh is a primatologist and an experimental psychologist, where she studies the upbringings of non-human primates and their capability to learn ...
Bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Savage-Rumbaugh is a developer of the Yerkish language; this is a lexigram in that language, representing her. Savage-Rumbaugh was the first scientist to conduct language research with bonobos.
Nyota (pronounced en-Yo-ta; born 1998), also known by the lexigram, is a bonobo. Nyota was born at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University. His mother was Panbanisha and his father was P-suke. With Panbanisha's death on November 6, 2012, Nyota became the sole surviving member of his immediate family.
Kanzi, a bonobo, learned to communicate with a lexigram board at first by eavesdropping on the lessons researcher Sue Savage-Rumbaugh was giving to his adoptive mother. Kanzi used the lexigram board by pushing symbols that stand for words. The board was wired to a computer and symbols were vocalized out loud once pressed.
William M. Fields (born 1949), also known by the lexigram, is an American qualitative investigator studying language, culture, and tools in non-human primates.He is best known for his collaboration with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh beginning in 1997 at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University.
Through lexigrams, Savage-Rumbaugh explained to Kanzi that he would be given yogurt. He was then asked to communicate this information to Panbanisha."Kanzi vocalized, then Panbanisha vocalized in return and selected ‘yogurt’ on the keyboard in front of her,"Savage-Rumbaugh tells me." These accounts are substantially different, as you can see.