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Sarah (full name Sarah Anne) (August 1959 – July 2019) [1] was an enculturated research chimpanzee whose cognitive skills were documented in the 1983 book The Mind of an Ape, by David Premack and Ann James Premack. [2] Sarah was one of nine chimpanzees in David Premack's psychology laboratory in Pennsylvania. Sarah was born in Africa in 1959.
Kanzi was born to Lorel and Bosandjo at Yerkes Field Station at Emory University in 1980. Shortly after birth, Kanzi was stolen and adopted by a more dominant female, Matata, the matriarch of the group.
Koko became the world's most famous representative of her critically endangered species. Koko's communication skills were hotly debated. [3] [4] [5] Koko used many signs adapted from American Sign Language, but the scientific consensus to date remains that she did not demonstrate the syntax or grammar required of true language. Patterson was ...
Chantek (December 17, 1977 – August 7, 2017), [1] born at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, was a male hybrid Sumatran/Bornean orangutan [2] who demonstrated a number of intellectual skills, including the use of several signs adapted from American Sign Language (ASL).
Most Western sources attribute the name "orangutan" (also written orang-utan, orang utan, orangutang, and ourang-outang [2]) to the Malay words orang, meaning "person", and hutan, meaning "forest". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Malay used the term to indicate forest-dwelling humans; the first recorded Malay use of "orang-utan" referring to the ape identifies ...
different ape-men species from Kull's Thurian Age and Conan's Hyborian Age; evolved apes in the Planet of the Apes universe; Ape-Man, a comic book character "Apeman" (song), a 1970 song by The Kinks; The Apemen (band), a Dutch surf rock band; The Ape Man (film), 1943 U.S. sci-fi horror film
It is derived from Vili ci-mpenze [7] or Tshiluba language chimpenze, with a meaning of "ape", [8] or "mockman". [9] The colloquialism "chimp" was most likely coined some time in the late 1870s. [10] The genus name Pan derives from the Greek god, while the specific name troglodytes was taken from the Troglodytae, a mythical race of cave ...
All old world monkeys and apes are trichromats, but new world monkeys are polymorphic trichromats, meaning that males and homozygous females are dichromats while heterozygous females are trichromats (with the exceptions of howler monkeys and night monkeys, who have more and less robust color vision respectively).