I wrote this back in 2006. Alex and Washoe have died since then, but the truths they demonstrated are still true.

===There has been strong resistance from the scientific community to the use of the terms "language" and "culture" to describe animal communication and learned behavior. But this resistance seems to me to be essentially irrational and ( Read more... )

"Giants in Twilight"
by
Jordan S. Bassior
(c) 2006

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