Monday, January 18, 2010

Can just anyone or anything learn Sign Language?

I know this is a biased opinion, but you gotta admit it. This gotta be the cutest fox you ever seen! (see below). 


Anyhow, after reading this article, it made me think of .... Koko (gorilla). Then Washoe (chimpanzee). Then dogs and cats... Finally a friend in California who taught a parrot few signs (I think it's on Youtube). Now we have a fox who is learning sign language. Isn't there any limit in learning sign language. Will we be able to teach a mouse sign language someday? A fish? An ant? Red blood cell?
Perhaps, the bigger question is: 



"Is Sign Language so primitive that we can teach it to anything?" 

Fantastic Mrs Fox: Milly the deaf vixen learns sign languag



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