The capabilities of bonobos to communicate are tested in ad hoc conversation.


http://www.topnews.in/apes-can-follow-conversations-same-way-humans-do-262798

Rights for apes

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/rights-for-other-apes-they-insist-are-they-serious/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7570291.stm

Magpies can recognise themselves in a mirror, scientists have found - the first time self-recognition has been observed in a non-mammal.