Chimpanzee Communication

The discussion we had in class on Friday about communicating with chimpanzee's was extremely interesting. It was so cool that when I went home I began looking at the research of the chimp's at The Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute of Central Washington University. Before this discussion I did not realize that Chimps are so intelligent and that they share 98.5 percent of the same DNA as us. After researching I was even more surprised to see how the Chimps can communicate with American Sign Language (ASL) and that they communicate with the other Chimps with (ASL) in the same format as a human conversation. The chimps also invent new signs for things that they haven't learned and they have been seen to use (ASL) in their sleep.

I believe that it is so cool to know how animals communicate because normally you would have no idea what they are saying. But now we know and understand how they can communicate with each other and the outside world. With such an intelligent species I think that they can do much more than sign language and maybe help us understand more about the animal kingdom.