Nicholas Toth
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Nicholas Patrick Toth is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist. He is a Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University and is a founder and co-director of the Stone Age I
Toth in 2019
Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick at Koobi Fora (East Lake Turkana), Kenya, 1977.
Toth making an experimental Acheulean handaxe
Kanzi
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Kanzi was a male bonobo who was the subject of numerous studies on great ape language and cognition. According to Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a primatologist who has studied the bonobo since the 1990s, Kanzi
Nicholas Toth
…the Middle East, and Europe. He is best known for his experimental work, with Kathy Schick, including their work with the bonobo (“pygmy chimpanzee”) Kanzi who they taught to make and use simple stone tools similar to those made by our Early Stone Age ancestors. Toth was born and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio…
Kanzi near his lexigram in 2006
Savage-Rumbaugh (L), Kanzi (R), and his sister Panbanisha (C) working at the portable "keyboard"
Kanzi converses with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh in 2006 using a portable "keyboard" of arbitrary symbols that Kanzi associates with words.
Kanzi during a species-standard vocalization.