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Presents the author's groundbreaking work teaching chimpanzees--including Washoe--to communicate by using American Sign Language, and describes his outspoken advocacy for improved conditions for animals in research laboratories.

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Roger Fouts is a professor of psychology at Central Washington University and co-director with his wile, Deborah Fouts, of the Chimpanzee and Human Communications Institute. His extraordinary accomplishments with Washoe and her chimpanzee family over the past three decades have generated international publicity in magazines and newspapers and on television. He is a frequent speaker on chimpanzee behavior and on behalf of improved conditions for captive chimpanzees in biomedical research.

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