1. Panbanisha, known by the lexigram, was a female bonobo that featured in studies on great ape language by Professor Sue Savage-Rumbaugh.
21 Facts About Panbanisha
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Panbanisha was born at Language Research Center at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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Panbanisha was the daughter of Matata, the adopted mother of the famous Kanzi, who was an intelligent bonobo, and was the mother of two sons, Nyota and Nathen.
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Panbanisha resided at the Great Ape Trust in Iowa, where ape behavior and intelligence is studied.
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Panbanisha was able to express her sadness through Yerkish when her half-brother Kanzi had to leave.
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Panbanisha died of a cold at the Great Ape Trust on November 6,2012.
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When Panbanisha was born, her brother Kanzi was already learning to communicate.
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At the beginning of research Panbanisha was able to use 256 symbols on the lexigram keyboard.
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The ways in which Panbanisha learned lexigrams was in a style like those of young human beings.
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Panbanisha excelled in comparison to Kanzi, her half brother when it came to her responses to recorded sentences.
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Out of all subjects that underwent this trial, Panbanisha was the most perceptive to her name being called.
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Panbanisha exhibited the ability to remember and talk about past events.
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Panbanisha started to learn Yerkish lexigrams at birth, whereas Kanzi started to learn when he was nine months.
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The researchers believed, without confirmation, that Panbanisha knew around 6,000 English words.
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Panbanisha was exposed to advanced ways of communicating from the first week she was born.
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For example, one of the symbols that Panbanisha used was TV.
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Panbanisha would push the TV symbol as part of a string of symbols to show that she wanted to watch the television.
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At three years old Panbanisha understood 80 spoken English words.
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Panbanisha used vocal gestures to respond to different words before she used the lexigrams.
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Kanzi was given the yogurt and Panbanisha was supposed to receive it.
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Panbanisha used the yogurt symbol on the lexigram keyboard asking for the yogurt.