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Stan Carey
@stancarey@mastodon.ie  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Jane Goodall's first scientific paper was sent back to her with amendments, the editor having replaced every "he"/"she" (referring to chimpanzees) with "it", and every "who" with "which". She changed them back, refusing to mark non-human animals as inferior.
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/annals-of-animals-which-get-who/

#JaneGoodall #language #EnglishUsage #grammar #PoliticsOfLanguage #pronouns #science #animals

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Stan Carey
@stancarey@mastodon.ie replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Here's a wonderful little clip of Goodall greeting the world, chimp-style

More on pant-hooting and other chimp-related communication in these excerpts from her book "In the Shadow of Man"
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/chimpanzee-pant-hooting-termiting-and-gesture/

#JaneGoodall #animals #chimpanzees #primatology #animals #books

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Chimpanzee pant-hooting, termiting, and gesture

Here are a few items of linguistic interest from In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall’s account of her pioneering study of chimpanzee behaviour in Tanzania in the 1960s. I featured In the Shadow of M…
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Jane Goodall speaking from a lectern, wearing a green top and her grey hair in a ponytail: "My wonderful welcome comes to you from the forests and hills of Gombe National Park in Tanzania: the sound that you would hear if you came – some of you have been – but if you go to Gombe and climb the hills in the morning, the sound of a chimpanzee greeting the day, announcing, 'Here I am. Who's out there?'" She does a dramatic rendition of a chimp's pant-hooting: a series of audible intakes of breath that develop into hoots that get louder and louder then stop. "Hello!" The audience laugh appreciatively, then applaud.
Jane Goodall speaking from a lectern, wearing a green top and her grey hair in a ponytail: "My wonderful welcome comes to you from the forests and hills of Gombe National Park in Tanzania: the sound that you would hear if you came – some of you have been – but if you go to Gombe and climb the hills in the morning, the sound of a chimpanzee greeting the day, announcing, 'Here I am. Who's out there?'" She does a dramatic rendition of a chimp's pant-hooting: a series of audible intakes of breath that develop into hoots that get louder and louder then stop. "Hello!" The audience laugh appreciatively, then applaud.
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