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− | '''Dr. [[Person First Name:=Francine]] [[Person Last Name:=Neago]]''' is a [[Professional Description:=Primatologist|[[Primatologist]]]] and [[Professional Description:=Conservationist|[[Conservationist]]]] specializing in orangutans. In addition to her internationally televised films about orangutans she has published several scientific papers in the [[Directory:Journal of Primatology|Journal of Primatology]] (New York). In 2006 she co-authored a book on [http://www.uturatpublishing.com/orangutan-loving-home.htm humans raising an orphaned orangutan] with co-author [http://www.uturatpublishing.com/order-online.htm Esther Kerr]. | + | '''Dr. [[Person First Name::Francine]] [[Person Last Name::Neago]]''' is a [[Professional Description::Primatologist|[[Primatologist]]]] and [[Professional Description::Conservationist|[[Conservationist]]]] specializing in orangutans. In addition to her internationally televised films about orangutans she has published several scientific papers in the [[Directory:Journal of Primatology|Journal of Primatology]] (New York). In 2006 she co-authored a book on [http://www.uturatpublishing.com/orangutan-loving-home.htm humans raising an orphaned orangutan] with co-author [http://www.uturatpublishing.com/order-online.htm Esther Kerr]. |
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| While at UCLA between 1978 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989 1989] she developed a computer system in conjunction with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM IBM] later used by the Smithsonian National Zoo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_Research_Center|Smithsonian National Zoo] to teach language to [[orangutan]]s [http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ThinkTank/ResearchProjects/OLP/default.cfm], and organized and directed the world's first [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/orangutan orangutan] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/language language] study. With the aid of a [[computer]], she taught an ape [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ape] named Bulan sign [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sign language] and a method she devised for spelling in a phonetic alphabet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phonetic alphabet]. [[Directory:Encyclopedia Britannica|Encyclopedia Britannica]] first listed her language program in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988 1988] [http://www.orangutanlanguage.com/cv.html]. | | While at UCLA between 1978 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989 1989] she developed a computer system in conjunction with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM IBM] later used by the Smithsonian National Zoo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_Research_Center|Smithsonian National Zoo] to teach language to [[orangutan]]s [http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ThinkTank/ResearchProjects/OLP/default.cfm], and organized and directed the world's first [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/orangutan orangutan] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/language language] study. With the aid of a [[computer]], she taught an ape [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ape] named Bulan sign [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sign language] and a method she devised for spelling in a phonetic alphabet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phonetic alphabet]. [[Directory:Encyclopedia Britannica|Encyclopedia Britannica]] first listed her language program in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988 1988] [http://www.orangutanlanguage.com/cv.html]. |