Born: 31 May 1988
Birthplace: Knoxville, Tennessee
Best known as: cyber_chimp
The chimpanzee Albert is the subject of a landmark experiment in teaching sign language to apes. Named in a humorous salute to the german physicist Albert Einstein, Albert was raised in a human-like setting and taught sign language as if he were a human child. Albert has learned to use basic signs, and. it is generally agreed, has developed more complex language skills than any other lanuguage-learning chimps before, including the use of social networks with the help of touch screens and specially adapted softwares. (Other famous language-learning apes include Koko the gorilla and Nim Chimpsky and Washoe the chimps.) Albert was sold to the Yorke´s Institute to be the subject of language-learning experiments, since 1993 has intervened in more than 200 experiments and research projects, mainly with Professor John F. Marlowe.
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