Full name: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

Author: Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Animals, Non Fiction, Anthology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780471159599 047115959X

The remarkable story of a "talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our speciesHe has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "NOVA" documentary. He is directly responsible for discoveries that have forced the scientific community to recast its thinking about the nature of the mind and the origins of language. He is Kanzi, an extraordinary bonobo chimpanzee who has overturned the idea that symbolic language is unique to our species. This is the moving story of how Kanzi learned to converse with humans and the profound lessons he has taught us about our animal cousins, and ourselves. ". . . The underlying thesis is informative and well argued . . . Savage-Rumbaugh's results are impressive." -- The Washington Post "This popular, absorbing, and controversial account is recommended." -- Library Journal Similar books: Next of Kin by Roger Fouts Bonobo by Frans B. M. de Waal The Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal The Territorial Imperative by Robert Ardrey Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy L. Cheney The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior by David Allen Sibley The Warbler Guide by Tom Stephenson Where the Animals Go by James Cheshire Life on Earth by David Attenborough Plants of the Gods by Richard Evans Schultes Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America by National Geographic Society Sibley's Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holstun Lopez The Life of Birds by David Attenborough The Life of Mammals by David Attenborough The Wisdom of Wolves by Jim Dutcher The Wolverine Way by Douglas H. Chadwick Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley