Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The real-life culture of bonobos

About this film

Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.

Directors & creators

TED.com

Subjects

TEDTalks, TED2004, TED, Talks, Featured, animals, apes, biology, culture, education, evolution, genetics, intelligence, language, 2004

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