Allen Gardner, who has died aged 91, was an ethologist who hit the headlines when it emerged that he and his zoologist wife, Beatrix Gardner, had apparently taught sign language to a chimpanzee named ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who first ...

ELLENSBURG, Wash. - A chimpanzee who could talk to people using American Sign Language has died at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. The university's Chimpanzee and Human Communication ...

He and his wife and collaborator made headlines with their finding that they could communicate with a young ape using the language of the deaf. By Sam Roberts Washoe was 10 months old when her foster ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. SHE spent her early years playing in the backyard of a small house in Reno, Nevada. Learning American sign language from the scientists ...

Allen Gardner, whose groundbreaking research along with his late wife Beatrix “Trixie” Gardner involving the chimpanzee Washoe made worldwide headlines when Washoe became the first nonhuman to learn ...

Washoe was 10 months old when her foster parents began teaching her to talk, and five months later they were already trumpeting her success. Not only had she learned words; she could also string them ...