Well, as I understand it some researchers in the field do claim that chimpanzees trained in American Sign Language (ASL) will use it to communicate with each other and that they will train their offspring to use it as well.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/language/chimpanzee.html http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/language.htm http://www.cwu.edu/~cwuchci/
Jim F.
---------- Original Message ---------- From: c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:16:37 -0400
Chris Doss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heTORvEyVKE&feature=PlayList&p=7D168F167A5398FB&index=0&playnext=1 --- On Mon, 8/10/09, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: All_ human languages and moralities, whatever their differences, have symboling and abstract principles, and no other species have this.
^^^^^^^ CB: Yes, and when a dog responds to its name or commands like "sit", "fetch" or when they point to game etc., they are using symbols too. This is due to very limited "enculturation" from living among humans. Same with the apes and chimps. But no other species develops symbol systems on its own outside of human contact. Also, I don't think the apes and chimps who learn small sets of vocabulary from humans don't teach it to each other. And I've never heard of them "talking" to each other. They only talk to humans.
Further all the trained apes and chimps have very limited vocabularies compared with humans to such an extent that the difference in quantity amounts to a difference in quality. In the wild, apes don't organize their societies based on symbol systems and language ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
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