Evolution: a different view: ape speech (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, August 16, 2015, 04:11 (3387 days ago) @ David Turell

this is the most ridiculously reported article about ape speech ability I've ever seen:-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150813171210.htm-So Koko can grunt and cough and control her breathing a bit:-"However, in a study published online in July in the journal Animal Cognition, Perlman and collaborator Nathaniel Clark of the University of California, Santa Cruz, sifted 71 hours of video of Koko interacting with Patterson and Cohn and others, and found repeated examples of Koko performing nine different, voluntary behaviors that required control over her vocalization and breathing. These were learned behaviors, not part of the typical gorilla repertoire.-"Among other things, Perlman and Clark watched Koko blow a raspberry (or blow into her hand) when she wanted a treat, blow her nose into a tissue, play wind instruments, huff moisture onto a pair of glasses before wiping them with a cloth and mimic phone conversations by chattering wordlessly into a telephone cradled between her ear and the crook of an elbow.-"'She doesn't produce a pretty, periodic sound when she performs these behaviors, like we do when we speak," Perlman says. "But she can control her larynx enough to produce a controlled grunting sound."-"Koko can also cough on command -- not particularly groundbreaking human behavior, but impressive for a gorilla because it requires her to close off her larynx."-And she has lived with humans since five months old. This proves nothing except we are very different.