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Frans de Waal answers questions from the public for the New York Times Freakonomics blog.

Frans de Waal is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read the press release here.

What presidential candidates -- and the rest of us -- can learn from chimps. An article from MinnPost.com discussing Frans de Waal's work.

Storming the Language Barrier (pdf). Frans de Waal reviews the new book "The Simian Tongue" for the journal Nature.

Science Says War Is Over Now (Given the Right Conditions). Frans de Waal discusses the conditions for ending wars in Discover Magazine.

Can Apes Save Hillary? Frans de Waal gives his perspective on what Hillary Clinton could learn from apes in the New Scientist.

Victoria Horner is featured on the Today Show to promote the new NOVA special "Ape Genius." View the Today Show video clip here (February, 2008 - 18mb download).

The Living Links Center is mentioned in conjunction with National Geographic's feature on Animal Minds. Georgia is featured in the photograph. View the coverage here.

See Frans de Waal on the Colbert Report (January, 2008 - 22mb download)

Coverage of the recent PNAS article on inequity in monkeys from Live Science and New Scientist.

How We Communicate: Gestures May Come From Chimps. ABC news coverage of Amy Pollick's gesture study. See the Good Morning America video clip here.

A World of Eloquence in an Upturned Palm. A New York TImes article focusing on the recent gesture study by Amy Pollick and Frans de Waal.

The Language of Hands. A New York TImes article on gesturing featuring Amy Pollick and Frans de Waal.

Bonobos and Paula Jones. A response to a recent New Yorker article on bonobos by Frans de Waal.

Do Chimps Have Culture? - The Scientist. An article focusing on the culture studies of the Living Links Center.

Looking at Flipper, Seeing Ourselves - New York Times Op-Ed. A piece in defense of dolphin intelligence by Frans de Waal.

Virtuous Species: The Biological Origins of Human Morality. An interview with Frans de Waal from Science and Spirit.

See the new climbing structure in one of our chimpanzee enclosures.

 

 

 

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