Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos
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Susan Savage-Rumbaugh has made startling breakthroughs in her lifelong work with chimpanzees and bonobos, showing the animals to be adept in picking up language and other "intelligent" behaviors. Full bio
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1600年頃に発見された―
たどりついたか
アウストラロピテクスの比較です
歩き方は同じです
骨盤の方が少し平らで
ジャングルに生息しています
多くのことを発見しました
全て訓練なしの状態です
まだできません
火を起こすのを見たら
学習中です
水どこか わかる?
鏡に映っているのが自分とわかります
ニョウタの毛を切ろうとしています
ハサミを使おうとします
まるで人間の母親のように
思う剥片を選びます
切るのは困難です
使いこなすのは大変です
まるでナイフの刃のようです
行きたい場所を伝えています
キーボードの絵文字を比較しましょう
気がつきませんでした
首輪をするのが約束ごとです
教えてはいけないということです
言っているか理解することだからです
満たすことが重要と考えます
スー博士の歌を伴奏をしています
どうもありがとう
ボノボも人間も想像しませんでした
私たちは “汎ヒト文化” と呼んでいます
どうすればいいか研究しています
道具 技術 言語を
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh - Primate authoritySusan Savage-Rumbaugh has made startling breakthroughs in her lifelong work with chimpanzees and bonobos, showing the animals to be adept in picking up language and other "intelligent" behaviors.
Why you should listen
Into the great debate over intelligence and instinct -- over what makes us human -- Susan Savage-Rumbaugh has thrown a monkey wrench. Her work with apes has forced a new way of looking at what traits are truly and distinctly human, and new questions about whether some abilities we attribute to "species" are in fact due to an animal's social environment. She believes culture and tradition, in many cases more than biology, can account for differences between humans and other primates.
Her bonobo apes, including a superstar named Kanzi, understand spoken English, interact, and have learned to execute tasks once believed limited to humans -- such as starting and controlling a fire. They aren't trained in classic human-animal fashion. Like human children, the apes learn by watching. "Parents really don't know how they teach their children language," she has said. "Why should I have to know how I teach Kanzi language? I just act normal around him, and he learns it."
Her latest book is Kanzi's Primal Language: The Cultural Initiation of Primates into Language.
Also, in 2011, she was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People.
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