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Next of KinRoger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language. Now, in Next...Read More
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New York Review of Books, November 3, 2011
...key difference between Terrace’s research and that of other pioneering researchers like Allen and Beatrix Gardner and Roger Fouts is that Terrace failed to understand “that children (and presumably chimps raised as children) absorb language in an...
shadowplay, June 28, 2011
...a cattle prod to keep his apes in line, but we don’t hear of the startling behaviour Roger Fouts describes in his book Next Of Kin … Lemmon wore a snake ring with ruby eyes, and he would walk between the cages of chimps and offer his hand...
Brooklyn Based, June 24, 2011
...the stories that came out of Norman, Oklahoma in the ‘70s were absolutely bizarre. At some point in Roger Fouts’ memoir about working with chimps, Next of Kin , he writes that Norman, Oklahoma in the ‘70s must have held some sort of world record...
