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  • From: Carrie McLaren <carrie AT stayfreemagazine.org>
  • To: monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [monkeywire] Must-see Chimp TV
  • Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:33:01 -0500

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Keeli & Ivy: Chimps Like Us (Discovery Channel)
Aug 21 2002, 8:00 PM, Aug 21 2002 11:00 PM , Aug 24 2002 , 1:00 PM
http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/episode.jsp?episode=21413000

Chimps' quest for learning documented on television

Meet Keeli and Ivy. They're typical toddlers - mugging for the camera, begging for sweets, throwing tantrums and horsing around. They're learning their ABCs, and they're extra excited on holidays, they have a hard time sitting still and they just love the playground. However, a small but critically important one percent genetic difference makes Keeli and Ivy chimpanzees, not humans. Yet, because they're so close to humans on the evolutionary tree, scientists are working with chimps to learn if they can think like humans and, more remarkably, use language. For the past four years, Animal Planet's cameras have recorded scientific history in the making, and the results are now ready for view. Keeli & Ivy: Chimps Like Us follows psychology professor Sally Boysen and her graduate students at The Ohio State University Chimpanzee Center, where they care for 11 chimpanzees and four capuchin monkeys as if they are their own children. The chimps, who can live up to 60 years of age in captivity, enjoy socializing and learning with the help of the pioneering center staff.

Keeli & Ivy: Chimps Like Us premieres Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m. (replay on Aug. 18, 12:30 a.m.) as part of the special programming event "Chimps Like Us." Also part of "Chimps Like Us" are Fifi's Boys - A Story of Wild Chimpanzees, a program that follows the most successful mother chimp Jane Goodall worked with in Tanzania, at 7:30 p.m. and An Animal's World: Chimps, a fascinating look at the analytical side of human's closest relatives, at 8:30 p.m.

Keeli & Ivy: Chimps Like Us introduces viewers to an 18-month-old male chimp named Keeli and a one-year-old female named Ivy, as Ms. Boysen and her assistants painstakingly teach the chimps how to respond to, and use, graphic symbols in sequence - similar to how human children learn to read and spell. Over the next four years, Keeli and Ivy are slowly brought along in their studies. At the beginning, they learn to press the letters A, B, C and more in sequence on a touch-screen computer monitor.

The camera's lens, coming back every few months, year after year, until Keeli and Ivy are six years old and fully integrated into the center's adult chimp community, reveals their educational programs as well as their personality differences.

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Carrie McLaren
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  • [monkeywire] Must-see Chimp TV, Carrie McLaren, 08/21/2002

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