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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]. |
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− | Born in [[Birth City:=Paris|[[Directory:Paris|Paris]]]], [[Birth Country Name:=France|[[Directory:France|France]]]] and originally trained as a general practitioner in [[medicine], she studied the [[ape]] and language of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae|Great Apes] at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia Indonesia]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surabaya Surabaya] Zoological Park from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965 1965] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977 1977]. At that time she also volunteered as a park [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/veterinarian veterinarian], founded and operated a free medical clinic and hospital for 10 years, and pioneered a number of relief projects for Indonesian people. In 1977 she lived for six months inside a cage at the Singapore [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore Zoo] with eighteen orangutans to study their behavior [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethology|behavior] and communication. | + | Born in [[Birth City:=Paris|[[Directory:Paris|Paris]]]], [[Birth Country Name:=France|[[Directory:France|France]]]] and originally trained as a general practitioner in [[medicine]], she studied the [[ape]] and language of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae|Great Apes] at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia Indonesia]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surabaya Surabaya] Zoological Park from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965 1965] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977 1977]. At that time she also volunteered as a park [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/veterinarian veterinarian], founded and operated a free medical clinic and hospital for 10 years, and pioneered a number of relief projects for Indonesian people. In 1977 she lived for six months inside a cage at the Singapore [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore Zoo] with eighteen orangutans to study their behavior [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethology|behavior] and communication. |
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| Between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978 1978] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989 1989] she lectured in primatology at UCLA, and in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980 1980] she organized the rehabilitation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chimpanzee chimpanzee]s from cages in laboratories to the Lion Country Safari [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion Country Safari] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida Florida]. Between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990 1990] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995 1995] she rehabilitated local wildlife in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jungle jungle] of Costa Rica [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa Rica], and from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996 1996] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997 1997] she organized a site for the rehabilitation of Endangered species while living in a private [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zoo zoo] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riau Riau] Province in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra Sumatra]. | | Between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978 1978] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989 1989] she lectured in primatology at UCLA, and in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980 1980] she organized the rehabilitation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chimpanzee chimpanzee]s from cages in laboratories to the Lion Country Safari [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion Country Safari] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida Florida]. Between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990 1990] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995 1995] she rehabilitated local wildlife in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jungle jungle] of Costa Rica [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa Rica], and from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996 1996] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997 1997] she organized a site for the rehabilitation of Endangered species while living in a private [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zoo zoo] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riau Riau] Province in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra Sumatra]. |