Efforts to Teach Great Apes to Use Spoken Human Language

question 155

Multiple Choice

Efforts to teach great apes to use spoken human language have been

• A) successful in chimpanzees,but not in other species.
• B) successful in most ape species,but not monkey species.
• C) unsuccessful,because apes lack the necessary mirror neurons.
• D) unsuccessful,because apes lack the necessary vocal apparatus.

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