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Knowing Chimpsky

The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Gesture and the Language of Signs

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Hans was born in Berlin, Germany, early in this century and long amazed the local citizens with his ability to rapidly perform mathematical calculations. It was not the difficulty of the problems which was so astounding, but the fact that Hans was a horse. For example, after a math problem was written on a blackboard, Hans would count out the answer by tapping his left forefoot to indicate 10, 20, 30, and so on, and with his right forefoot to indicate 1–9. In this way, he was able to indicate if the answer were 17, 24, or whatever.

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