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10:57 am
Wed September 19, 2012

The Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary

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"Talk of Iowa" host Charity Nebbe meets 2-year-old bonobo, Teco
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Charity meets Kanzi, Teco's father and one of the first bonobos to use a lexigram keyboard
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The lexigram board these bonobos use to communicate represents nearly 400 words
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Kanzi uses the lexigram to communicate with humans at the trust
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Teco is in the process of learning the lexigram symbols
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Teco waits by his father, Kanzi's, enclosure
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Kanzi greets the IPR visitors
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Teco plays with Charity's shoe
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Kanzi bangs his fist on the glass to get human attention
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Chairman of the Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary board, Ken Schweller, shows us a program he designed for lexigram keyboard use
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Charity talks to Teco as he plays
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Heather Pugh, who grew up with the bonobos, plays with Teco
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Former caretaker at the facility, Susannah Maisel, takes care of Teco
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Susannah Maisel and Teco
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Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, the director and senior scientist at the trust, disciplines Teco for misbehaving
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Elikya, Teco's mother and Kanzi's current mate, rests in Kanzi's enclosure
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Although Elikya is Kanzi's mate, she is one of the bonobos at the trust who does not communicate via lexigram
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Kanzi enjoys his present from his IPR visitors
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The bonobo's greenhouse play-area
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The bonobos at the trust create art themselves, as well as communicating with humans in order to direct the way paintings are made. Here, the dog painting was instructed by a bonobo, while the painting on the left was created solely by Kanzi.
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The bonobos also indirectly create drawings via their human caretakers
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Caretaker Liz Pugh cuddles with Teco
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The Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary in Des Moines is home to a ground breaking thirty year old language research project, at least one superstar Bonobo, and recently it has become home to controversy and funding shortfalls that may end the project. Host Charity Nebbe takes you inside Bonobo Hope.

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