I just learnt of a Chimp that can cook, talk, play music and even use a computer. Well it is true even though it is hard to believe. Kanzi is now 33, has been involved with the human world English Language since birth.
Scientists that have studied Kanzi states that he can possesses a vocabulary big enough to follow and contribute to simple conversations.
Kanzi has even learned to say about 500 words which he can type with the keyboards and he understands 3000 of them.
He was the first primate who didn’t acquire language through direct training.Well you might ask how he started to learn this, well researchers found out that when they were trying to teach his foster mother Teco, Kanzi as a child then began to pick interest and learnt a lot from the teaching and also learnt manual skills.
Kanzi can cook, create knives out of stone and can even play the arcade game Pac-Man (he can get past the first round — a feat beyond many humans).
"He and his similarly talented late sister, Panbanisha, once even jammed with British rock star Peter Gabriel, playing along on a keyboard as the former Genesis man played a synthesizer."This is the most interesting part. Kanzi loves chatting on the video-calling service Skype.
" Kanzi’s achievements raise an uncomfortable question. If our closest cousins really are far more like us than we have ever imagined, what do we do when they start telling us — in English — that it’s time to treat them better in their natural environment?"
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