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	Koko the Gorilla - http://www.koko.org/ The Gorilla Foundation brings interspecies communication to the public through Koko, famous for her sign language skills.
	The Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute - http://www.cwu.edu/~cwuchci/ This institute at Central Washington University cares for five chimpanzees who are being taught American Sign Language.
	Language Research Center - http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwlrc/ Primate research center studying language acquisition through work with bonobos and chimpanzees. Features a list of publications and ape biographies.
	Primate Research Institute: Section of Language and Intelligence - http://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/koudou-shinkei/shikou/index.html Chimpanzee language research projects at Kyoto University. News, pictures and biographies of chimpanzee subjects as well as researchers.
	Primate Use of Language - http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/language.htm Lauren Kosseff argues that the documentation of elementary language competence in species other than humans has significant implications for the understanding of the evolution of the human species. Article includes a history of ape sign language research.

	Chimp Talk Debate: Is it Really Language? - http://www.santafe.edu/~johnson/articles.chimp.html Article by George Johnson in the New York Times in which he outlines varying views on ape communication.
	The Straight Dope: Are Gorillas Using Sign Language Really Communicating with Humans? - http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030328.html Cecil Adams' research column on the divided scientific opinions about apes and language.
	The Primatech Project - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/perception/projects/primatech/ A cognitive model of Chantek, a signing orangutan, for an installation at Zoo Atlanta.
	Are Nonhuman Species Capable of Language Acquisition? - http://www.littletree.com.au/koko.htm A discussion of the value and validity of ape language research.
	Language in Apes: How Much Do They Know and How Much Should We Teach Them - http://www.davidmswitzer.com/apelang.html An overview written by Dave Switzer that features a summaries of multiple research projects. Also offers primate glossary.

	Language in Child and Chimp? - http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jel/apelang.html General commentary on ape language with transcripts of chats with apes and interviews with ape language researchers.
	Non-Human Primates and Language - http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/nhplanguage/ This project is part of a theoretical course on Syntax and Grammatical Theories taught by Prof. Dirk Geeraerts at K.U.Leuven.
	The Case Against the Animal Mind - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmske/is_4_13/ai_n29405778/?tag=content;col1 An article by Clive Wynne that argues that evidence from ape sign language studies demonstrates that our closest animal relatives do not have consciousness.

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