Kanzi the bonobo shattered boundaries between humans and apes

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Kanzi the bonobo shattered boundaries between humans and apes

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Jim East to

vegan@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, but he was the first to do so with such fluency, subtlety and apparent […]

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Humans are apes. Apes is a genus of often highly intelligent and bipedal primates, including humans. We need to accept we are animals, we belong to a genus, and a family.

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