Language in Dolphins?
The idea that some other animal might have a language of it’s own, or may be able to learn ours, has fascinated me since I was in middle school. Language studies with the great apes have had an impressive level of success several apes have learned hundreds of signs in sign language. Notable examples include Koko the gorilla, who is supposed to know about 1,000 signs (and loves kittens), and Loulis the chimpanzee, who learned sign language from her mother Washoe…