Silent Partners: The Legacy of the Ape Language Experiments

April 13, 1986 • Posted in Suggested Reading, The use of chimpanzees in research

Linden, Eugene; New York: Times Books, 1986

Linden tells the story of the signing chimpanzees, Lucy, Ally, Washoe, and others, and their fate after language experiments ended. Linden suggests that apes provide an “unwelcome mirror that threatens man’s exalted position in the natural order.” (From book jacket)

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