Animals That Can Think

Smart Animals
Finlay Mackay for TIME

Portrait of a Bonobo
Kanzi's ability with language can be breathtaking. He can build thoughts and sentences, even conjugate, all by pointing. The symbol sheets he uses include not just easy nouns and verbs like ball and run but also concept words like from and later and grammatical elements like the -ing and -ed endings that signify verb tense.

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