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Interesting watch. TL;DW - Apes like Koko were raised by trainers who did not perform rigorous scientific measurements and were prone to bias. Research on Apes
by tomerico 5y ago
Interesting watch.
TL;DW - Apes like Koko were raised by trainers who did not perform rigorous scientific measurements and were prone to bias. Research on Apes became immoral over time, hence less recent examples exist.
The most recent and rigorous study is on a bonobo, where communication is done using touchscreen with buttons saying words (lexigrams).
Even in this case interaction seems to be limited to “give me an item” or “put item in box”.
- TulliusCicero 5y ago> Research on Apes became immoral over time Teaching apes sign language became viewed as immoral?
- ReaLNero 5y agoRaising them only by interacting with a single person (not of their species!) would be immoral for a human baby, and depending on your views of ethics, also immoral for a gorilla.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoOh, I didn't realize that was somehow required to teach them sign language.
- barrkel 5y agoDo you mean fewer recent examples exist? "Less recent examples exist" is a positive assertion about the existence of even older examples. The 'less' attaches to the 'recent'. 'Less' can't attach to 'examples' because you can't have 'less examples', because 'examples' is countable. "Fewer recent examples exist" is a negative assertion about the existence of newer examples. The 'fewer' attaches to the 'examples'.