Great Ape Trust

Great Ape Trust

Insights Through Collaborations with Apes

Great Apes
- Great apes are classified in the Family Hominidae and include bonobos, orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas and humans.
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- The science of Great Ape Trust seeks to understand the origins and future of culture, language, tools and intelligence.
- Scientists' Biographies
- History of Ape Language
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- Great Ape Trust's library introduces you to a world of scientific study, latest research news and multi-media center of images.
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Forest of Hope
- Gishwati Area Conservation Program is a forest restoration and chimpanzee conservation effort Great Ape Trust manages in Rwanda.
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- Forest of Hope Blog
- Meet the Chimpanzees
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About The Trust
- Great Ape Trust is dedicated to the study of ape language and cognition and the preservation of apes in their natural habitat.
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- A clearinghouse for news releases, contact info, logos and images regarding our scientific and conservation efforts.
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A compilation of news articles about the scientific study and conservation of the world's great apes and primates.
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Meet Our Apes
Great Ape Trust's bonobos and orangutans are amazing beings with remarkable abilities.
- Meet Our Bonobos: Kanzi, Panbanisha, Nyota, Teco, Matata, Elikya, Maisha, Nathan
- Meet Our Orangutans: Allie, Popi
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Happy Birthday to Allie

December 30, 2011
Published by Al Setka

Allie is an amazing orangutan with an extraordinary story - and now she's 17.
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History of Ape Language
Two methods have been used to teach human languages to great apes: one uses sign language; the other, pioneered by Dr. Duane Rumbaugh and Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and explored at Great Ape Trust, uses graphical symbols called lexigrams that represent words.
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Great Ape Trust is a scientific research facility in Des Moines, Iowa, dedicated to understanding the origins and future of culture, language, tools and intelligence, and to the preservation of endangered great apes in their natural habitats. Announced in 2002 and receiving its first ape residents in 2004, Great Ape Trust is home to a colony of seven bonobos involved in noninvasive interdisciplinary studies of their cognitive and communicative capabilities, and to two orangutans.

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