In the 1960s and 1970s Gardner and Gardner were able to teach a chimpanzee (named Washoe) to communicate by

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Gardner and Gardner were able to teach Washoe to communicate using American Sign Language (ASL) in the 1960s and 1970s. They found that she was able to learn a significant number of signs and use them to communicate with humans. This experiment played a key role in establishing the legitimacy of using ASL as a language for non-human primates.

In the 1960s and 1970s Gardner and Gardner Were Able