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Teaching sign language to chimpanzees

Edited by R. Allen Gardner, Beatrix T. Gardner, and Thomas E. Van Cantfort. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1989,xviii+324 pp., $59.50 (hardcover)

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Miles, H.L.W. Teaching sign language to chimpanzees. International Journal of Primatology 12, 303–307 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02547591

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