All great apes have a very well developed cortex. Especially chimpanzees and humans. So what do you think? I think we would interact with apes just as well as with people with mental defects.
2007-11-29 15:28:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think we'd be able to interact very well and do better than the fundies. and Macy how do you now that the gorrilla doesn't believe the meaning of life is bananas. I think the gorrilla might be right.
2007-11-29 15:58:06 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. R PhD in Revolution 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chimpanzees by and large are not great at sign language, which would be the manual equivalent of speech. They can function about as well as 18-24 month old child, at best. Their syntax is usually off.
Naturally there are brighter examples of more articulate chimpanzees, but it appears that these are the exception, not the rule. They are, perhaps, the BabelFish of the Simian world.
2007-11-29 23:35:49 · answer #2 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Koko the Gorilla has scored between 70 and 95 on human IQ tests. She is able to communicate in sign language.
2007-11-29 23:34:10 · answer #3 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chimps can communicate, although they have a hard time with grammar rules and symbols. I'm not sure how fluent they would be - probably at the level of a very young child.
2007-11-29 23:33:58 · answer #4 · answered by khard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually saw a documentary on TV where they had taught chimpanzees sign language. The chimps, themselves, were able to create new words by combining others (such as 'water bird' for 'swan').
2007-11-29 23:40:48 · answer #5 · answered by JC 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not very.
I saw on the Daily Show a year or so ago they were telling about the sign language using gorilla and when a person asked him what the meaning of life was, he signed "Banana"
2007-11-29 23:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by Macy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Judging by the literacy levels displayed in this forum, most humans would be struggling to hold up their end of any interspecial conversation.
2007-11-29 23:33:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He'd put many of the xians here to shame.
This one is worth the violation notice that I'll get no matter what I say anyway lol.
2007-11-29 23:31:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I still don't think they'd have the ability for human speech. Just my opinion.
2007-11-29 23:32:08 · answer #9 · answered by sparrer2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Waddaya mean "if"? You obviously haven't heard our president give a speech.
2007-11-29 23:32:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋