Livestream with Julia Hanna and Guest Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

On March 31, 2018 Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh was a guest on the livestream with Julia Hanna and Aya Katz. In this interview, here are some of the topics discussed:

• Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh’s near death experience as a child and how it shaped her attitude towards her future career.
• Dr. Savage-Rumbaugh’s early training in psychology and her introduction to chimpanzess.
• Lucy Temerlin, Nim Chimpsky, Dr. William Lemmon and his chimp farm, Roger Fouts and Washoe, and other experiences from Oklahoma
• Why it is that while in the past chimpanzees had access to human children to play with in petting zoos, it is now considered by most people too dangerous, no matter how young the chimpanzee
• Society’s changing attitude to ape intelligence, language ability and access to humans.
• Bonobos in general, and the specific life histories of Matata and Kanzi and Panbanisha
• Why Dr. Savage-Rumbagh does not currently have access to Kanzi
• What caused Time Magazine to take Dr. Savage-Rumbaugh out of an article about Kanzi in 2017, for which she was interviewed at a time when she was billed top scientist by that same publication.
• Why apes in captivity need to have access to language and culture in order to live and thrive.
• Why ape sanctuaries in the US are not a good place for conservation due to restrictions on reproduction.

Please come and join us in our conversation. Feel free to leave a comment.