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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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Subject: Re: Washoe died (30/10/2007)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:00:18 +0000
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 Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark: 

 > [...] See Wiki for much more detail and references to related projects, bioethics
 > issues, and the continuing skepticism of some linguists about the whole
 > thing. I think we have learned that apes can do more language than we thought,
 > but not as much as we can.
 > 
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washoe_(chimpanzee)

Fascinating episode that I hadn’t been aware of, thanks for posting it.

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