World-renowned scholar Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh came to campus to give a presentation on “Symbolic Capacity of Apes as a Product of Bi-Cultural Rearing: Implications for Human Society” on October 4.  The presentation was sponsored jointly by the Anthropology Program and by the Departments of Psychology and Biology.  Dr. Savage-Rumbaugh is a psychologist who is most famous for her work on the language abilities of two bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha.  She is the author or co-author of Ape Language: From Conditioned Response to SignalLanguage Comprehension in Ape and Child (1986), Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind (1996), Apes, Language, and the Human Mind (1998), and Kanzi’s Primal Language (2005).  She currently is a research scientist at the new Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, which is dedicated to the study of the behavior and intelligence of the great apes.  Anthropology students had the pleasure of visiting the Trust and interacting with Kanzi and Panbanisha in Fall 2006 and Fall 2007.  This picture shows Dr. Savage-Rumbaugh in center, surrounded by Anthropology Club members.