Animals That Can Think

Smart Animals
Finlay Mackay for TIME

Kanzi
A 29-year-old male bonobo, Kanzi has acquired an extraordinary vocabulary of close to 400 words. He communicates by pointing to a series of colorful symbols that have been arranged for him on three cards resembling place mats by the primatologists at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, where he resides.

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