• Susan Savage-Rumbaugh
• Primatologist

• Speaking at TED2004
• February 2004
• Monterey, CA

Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man: Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.