97-07-17 OSU Primate Research on Discovery Channel

OHIO STATE PRIMATE RESEARCH ON DISCOVERY CHANNEL

	COLUMBUS -- Researchers from The Ohio State University’s Comparative
Cognition Project will be featured on two documentary programs on the
Discovery Channel next week.

	The two airings are part of a three-program package focusing on studies of
animal intelligence.  The first program, “Wild Discovery:  Animal IQ --
Naturally Clever,” will air Monday (7/21) at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.  The second
program, “Wild Discovery: Animal IQ -- Socially Smart,” airs Tuesday (7/22)
at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.

	Sally Boysen, associate professor of psychology and director of the
project, said that two of the project’s chimpanzees, 15-year-old Sheba and
11-year-old Bobby, will be featured in different portions of the two programs.

	Experiments with the chimps have shown they are able to make and use stone
tools, as well as count and do simple arithmetic.  A third set of
experiments shows the animals’ ability to relate scale models to the real
environment, an ability previously thought only possible in humans.

	A film crew from the BBC spent four days on campus last week filming the
chimpanzees for a different documentary which should air in 1999.

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Contact:  Sally Boysen, (614) 457-9259.


[Submitted by: Ruth Gerstner  (gerstner.2@osu.edu)
               
Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:47:13 -0400]
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