Communication

media type="custom" key="3241432"      Chimpanzee’s    communicate with each other by using gestures, and hand signals. They also use different grunts and/or cries that mean different things. Chimps also communicate with humans by picking up the objects they want or need. For example, they would pick up a coffee mug if they were thirsty. They would put their fingers towards their mouths if they were hungry. Chimpanzees may try to cumminicate with other chimps by immmitating humans. They try hard to speak like humans, if raised by humans. Also in the early 1970's, a chimpanzee named Washoe was taught to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL) by Beatrix and Allen Gardner at the University of Nevada in Reno. She was immersed in an environment where she learned to use ASL in daily interactions with her human companions. Washoe learned 132 different words in her time with the Gardners. In time since, four other chimps have also been taught to sign and they, along with Washoe, are the subject of study by Roger and Deborah Fouts. These five chimps, who consider themselves a family, now use many more signs than they were ever expected to learn (Washoe herself can use up to 240 reliable signs) ,and sign not only to the humans, but also to each other to communicate. Washoe even taught her own adopted son to sign without human intervention. media type="custom" key="3253340" I used these sites... http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS272&q=CHIMPANZEES&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&safe=active http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/language/chimpanzee.html http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V7IT9bKqNuA/SHIIuAcMGcI/AAAAAAAABn8/Lc0yybs0avY/s400/chimps.jpg