Their research began in 1966 with an infant chimp, taken from West Africa for use in U.S. Air Force experiments, whom they adopted and named Washoe. The Gardners raised Washoe as much like a human ...
SPOKANE, Wash. — Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who first ...