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Kanzi (born October 28, 1980), also known by the lexigram 20px (from the character 太), is a male bonobo who has been featured in several studies on great ape language. According to Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a primatologist who has studied the bonobo throughout his life, Kanzi has exhibited advanced linguistic aptitude.〔 == Biography == Born to Lorel and Bosandjo at Yerkes field station at Emory University and moved to the Language Research Center at Georgia State University, Kanzi was stolen and adopted shortly after birth by a more dominant female, Matata. As an infant, Kanzi accompanied Matata to sessions where Matata was taught language through keyboard lexigrams, but showed little interest in the lessons. It was a great surprise to researchers then when one day, while Matata was away, Kanzi began competently using the lexigrams, becoming not only the first observed ape to have learned aspects of language naturalistically rather than through direct training, but also the first observed bonobo to appear to use some elements of language at all.〔〔 Within a short time, Kanzi had mastered the ten words that researchers had been struggling to teach his adoptive mother, and he has since learned more than two hundred more. When he hears a spoken word (through headphones, to filter out nonverbal clues), he points to the correct lexigram.〔〔 According to a ''Discover'' article, Kanzi is an accomplished tool user. Kanzi's mother, Matata, lived to be one of world's oldest captive bonobos until her death in June 2014. Up until then Matata, Kanzi and his sister have lived at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. Kanzi is the alpha male of the resident community of Bonobos. His mother, Matata, was the chief leader (in the matriarchal society of bonobos, a male's position is primarily determined by the position of the females he is related to). According to the Smithsonian magazine, Kanzi "has the mien of an aging patriarch – he's balding and paunchy with serious, deep-set eyes."〔Raffaele, ''Smithsonian'', November 2006.〕 This description is confirmed by a full-page color photograph of Kanzi in the March 2008 ''National Geographic'', and a full-page black-and white photograph in ''Time'' magazine.〔''Time'', August 16, 2010.〕 Teco, son of Kanzi, was born June 1, 2010.〔TIME, August 16, 2010.〕 Teco has been exhibiting behaviors that resemble autism in young children.〔"Autism in Another Ape," by Nina Bai, ''Scientific American Mind'', September/October 2011, page 11.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kanzi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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