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was a show that I watched last night on how humans attribute emotional characteristics to animals. In the show they featured a segment about a chimpanzee who was taught sign language to communicate with humans. This isn't something new and many of us have heard about it. However, what I did think was interesting was the chimp they taught ASL to taught her adopted son how to communicate using it. She did this without reward from the scientists. As I watched this I started to wonder why was she teaching him this? At first I thought it might have just been the observational learning skills of the baby, but the mother taught the infant. Any thoughts?
~Kitty
~Kitty
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