Kanzi, the world’s most intelligent animal, sits inside his sunlit cage, dreaming of poo.
This very special bonobo ape lives in Des Moines, Iowa under the watchful care of scientists with the Great Ape Trust, where he spends his days making fires, communicating through computerized pictograms, and, now and again, snacking on choice dumps.
Though trained by intelligent, higher-order mammals, the things this chimp has learned is nothing short of astonishing.
Kanzi is the brother to another special ape Panbanisha, who died in 2012 of symptoms related to a cold–possibly due to poor care from the woman who used to train them, Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. Though she was later reinstated because of her uncanny connection with the animal kingdom–from hearing the first puppy speak English to ...
