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Chapters: Apes From Language Studies, Famous Apes, Famous Chimpanzees, Famous Gorillas, Famous Monkeys, Koko, Ham the Chimp, Nim Chimpsky, Kasakela Chimpanzee Community, Bubbles, Travis, Great Ape Language, Britches, Cheeta, Gibraltar Barbary Macaques, Jiggs, Oliver, List of Apes, Monkeys in Space, Washoe, Gargantua, Chantek, Snowflake, Kanzi, Bobo, Pogo, H'angus, J. Fred Muggs, Maggie the Monkey, Jambo, Michael, Titus, Congo, Charles the Gorilla, Rally Monkey, Ah Meng, Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey, Colo, Lucy Temerlin, Bokito, Guy the Gorilla, Max, Babec, Gordo, Enos, Panzee and Panbanisha, List of Monkeys, Bedtime for Bonzo, Binti Jua, Jenny, Nonja, One Small Step: the Story of the Space Chimps, Willie B., Lana, Ramu, Ken Allen, Sultan, Loulis, Sam, Sarah, Julius, Massa, Santino, Gregoire, Pankun, Jumoke, Bonnie, Vicki, Nonja, Gua, Nyota, Manis, Tonda, Natasha, Ai, Ayumu, Toto, Azy, Phoebe B. Beebe, Matthew Hiasl Pan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 316. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ai (born in 1976) is a female chimpanzee currently living at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University (acronym KUPRI). She is known for being the principal subject of the Ai project, a research program started in 1978 which is aimed at understanding chimpanzee cognition through computer interface experiments. The Ai project includes tests for numerical competency, color-to-symbol matching ability, and audio-to-image matching and recognition. Over the years, the Ai project has grown to include a 14 member community of chimpanzees (including Ai's 9 year old son, Ayumu ) who reside in a state of the art facility at KUPRI.See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Azy, (pronounced AY-zee) is a 33-year-old male orangutan . He was born at Smithsonian s National Zoological Park ...
