🐵 Animal Smarts
Read about Kanzi, a very smart chimpanzee!
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💡 Think about: dogs, dolphins, parrots, and monkeys.
💡 Think about: how pets understand us and how we understand them.
💡 Think about: using tools, learning words, or playing games.
Read the text about Kanzi, the smart bonobo chimpanzee.
ANIMAL SMARTS
The amazing intelligence of Kanzi the bonobo
This is Kanzi, a bonobo chimpanzee. Bonobo chimpanzees are from Africa. There are only about 10,000 to 50,000 bonobos in the world today.
Kanzi lives in a zoo in the United States. He is very smart. He can communicate with humans.
Kanzi can understand about 3,000 English words. He can’t speak, but he can use the computer to say about 500 words. He points to pictures on a computer to say these words. He uses between 30 and 40 words every day.
Kanzi can also make a fire and cook marshmallows. He knows that fires are hot. Kanzi can’t sing, but he can play the piano. Kanzi teaches his son Teco. Now Teco can use a computer, just like Kanzi.
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