Research on the Intelligence of Bonobos at the Great Ape Trust - Sue Savage
Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is the first and only scientist doing language research with bonobos. She joined the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines following a 23-year association with Georgia State University's Language Research Center. There, she helped pioneer the use of a number of technologies for working with primates. Dr. Rumbaugh's work with Kanzi, the first ape to learn language in the same manner as children, as detailed in Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (1993) was selected by the "Millennium Project" as one of the top 100 most influential works in cognitive science in the 20th century by the University of Minnesota's Center for Cognitive Sciences. She earned her doctorate in psychology and her masters in biology from the University of Oklahoma.