News Main Animals Archaeology Dinosaurs Earth History Human Animal Space Tech   AP Photo/Central Washington University |   She Spoke to People Washoe, a female chimpanzee believed to be the first non-human to acquire human language, died Tuesday night, Oct. 30, 2007. She died of natural causes at the research institute in Ellensburg, Wash. where she was kept, according to The Chimpanzee and Human Communications Institute at Central Washington University. She was born in Africa about 1965.   « back to article

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