Sue Savage-Rumbaugh: How Do Animals Use A Language

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is an American psychologist who tried, and succeeded, teaching an ape, bonobo, how to use a language. Animals can learn to use a language. One example is Kanzi, a 26-year-old male bonobo. Animals are more intelligent than we think, they don’t talk but they understand each other, scientists have been successful in teaching animals out language, and they can communicate in many different ways. Language is not just talking, in fact, it is how people or animals share their thoughts or ideas. Kanzi learned a language using symbols, and combining them to form sentences. I think that using some sort of symbol to communicate with someone is a great way to communicate. Using symbols can be a language, after all, there are the Chinese, their language is symbols. The Egyptians used symbols for their hieroglyphics, we wouldn’t know anything about the past without hieroglyphics. You can use symbols as some sort of language, some scientists are teaching animals to communicate with a symbols. Scientists are trying to teach apes and monkeys language. “When Kanzi was an infant, American psychologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh tried to teach his mother, Matata, to communicate using a keyboard labeled with geometric symbols. Matata never really got the hang of it, but Kanzi-who usually playing in the background, seemingly oblivious, during his mother’s teaching sessions-picked up the language.” This shows that a scientist tried, and …show more content…
Continuing research with animals and their “language” may lead us to being able to actually communicate with animals. When you give your dog a comand like sit, stay, roll-over, and other things like that, they most likey understand you, keep talking to him or her, you might learn a lot by actually communicating with