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	Language, an Orangutan, and Shakespeare \| Susanne Antonetta \| Orion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chantek has had surgery recently on his laryngeal flap, the long fl fold under the chin that makes orangs look like some kind of colonial barrister, and she asks him how he's feeling, if the suture's healing okay.
		Chantek, as always, dabs his mouth clean after eating but surprises both Lyn and me by folding the napkin to a fresh side and sponging out the sutured part of his laryngeal flap, which tends to catch food crumbs.
		Chantek is not part of any zoo exhibit -- he lives a short ride from the main zoo grounds -- and while he has a roomy habitat with plenty of branches for swinging, as well as a hammock and private space, it's still a cage.
	www.orionsociety.org /pages/om/05-2om/Antonetta.html (2385 words)

	Orangutan Chantek Sign of Something More
		Chantek, who zoo officials say thinks like a 4-year-old human, is one of a handful of signing primates throughout the country.
		Chantek, who is nearing age 20, was born at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta and was sent to live in a trailer with Miles at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for about nine years.
		As he grew up, Chantek learned to clean his room and was given an allowance, which he spent for treats such as car rides and trips to fast-food joints.
	www.geocities.com /willc7/SigningOrangutan.html (487 words)

	Miles 1990: The cognitive foundations for reference in a signing orangutan
		Chantek was not exposed to speech for the first several years, but then was.
		Chantek was first taught signs by molding, but later by imitation.
		Chantek used to use the word "dirty" to refer to bad things, until he learned the word for bad.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /~jimmyd/summaries/miles1990a.html (702 words)

	Watch For The Signs
		Lyn Miles taught Chantek the orangutan to sign when he was an infant.
		Chantek had not been signing while living at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University.
		Chantek will gradually be introduced to other orangutans and eventually be put in an area where the public can see him.
	pr.tennessee.edu /alumnus/summer98/chantek.html (676 words)

	THE CHANTEK FOUNDATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chantek had a pet squirrel and cat; asked to go for car rides to the lake, park, and fast food restaurants; and even went to the circus.
		Chantek was born at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, and came to live with Dr. Miles at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga when he was nine months old.
		Miles “adopted” Chantek as her cross-foster son as part of Project Chantek, an effort to explore the cultural and language capacity of a nonhuman intelligence at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
	www.chantek.org (1932 words)

	Chantek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chantek (born December 17, 1977, at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia) is a male orangutan who has mastered the use of a number of intellectual skills, including sign language, taught by anthropologist Dr.
		Chantek makes and uses tools, creates paintings, necklaces, crafts and music, and is one of only a handful of signing primates scattered across the United States.
		Chantek also demonstrates self-awareness, by grooming himself in a mirror and by using signs in mental planning and deception.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chantek (980 words)

	Bella Club
		Chantek was born in captivity and received the same cares any child would do.
		Chantek’s health was not going well at all due to overweight.
		Chantek has come to 370 angry pounds, because he had learned since an early age, with human beings, to overeat and that made him very happy.
	www.bellaclub.com /?S5OnoTS/zfIjbjBrvp4s98Pica2sXfW7X/JZZc0fGQ== (514 words)

	Caste-off orangs: controversy surrounds implications of a hybrid label - interbreeding Sumatran and Bornean orangutans ...
		At the tender age of 9 months, Chantek left his mother in Atlanta to live in a trailer next to the music building on the University of Tennessee campus in Chattanooga.
		But Chantek is an orangutan, and his every action and reaction has been recorded and studied as part of an ongoing examination of how these quiet, slow-moving -- some would say highly intellectual -- apes think and behave.
		At issue, they argue, is not only the fate of these unwanted hybrids in decades to come -- Chantek, for instance, could live another 40 years -- but also whether a moratorium on their breeding might jeopardize efforts to preserve the genetic health of future populations of purebred captive orangutans.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n12_v147/ai_16795968 (859 words)

	Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by H. Lyn White Miles
		Chantek produced his first signs after one month and eventually learned to use approximately 150 different signs, forming a vocabulary similar to that of a very young child.
		Furthermore, Chantek's language skills show that he was able to master a rudimentary communication system based on shared referential meanings that are conventionalised; abstracted from context; structurally interrelated; and expressed within a community of users to meet his needs, characterise his world, and influence the behaviour of others.
		Chantek was raised in the states of Tennessee and Georgia: these states and many others define murder as the killing of 'reasonable creatures'.
	www.animal-rights-library.com /texts-m/whitemiles01.htm (6122 words)

	One Monkey, One Keyboard
		The goal of Project Chantek was to investigate the mind of an orangutan through a developmental study of his cognitive and linguistic skills.
		Beginning at nine months of age, Chantek was raised at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga by a small group of care-givers who communicated with him by using gestural signs based on the American Sign Language for the deaf.
		Chantek began to point to objects when he was two years old, somewhat later than human children, as we might expect.
	www.onemonkey.org /history/000831.html (3223 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Beastly Behavior? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chantek immediately learned to sign Wise's first name as an S on the forehead.
		For an hour, as Chantek played Simon Says with his trainer, he would glance over at his new friend and sign "Steve." After his trainer rewarded him with a grape, Chantek signed "Steve" again, asking that Wise hand him a grape.
		When Chantek first passed it, he was at the same age as when a human child usually does.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A60634-2002Jun4?language=printer (2261 words)

	How Important Are Animal Feelings?
		Chantek asks Lyn what's wrong with her hand, which has a scratch on the knuckle.
		For Chantek, the sign for "bug" includes several things: crickets, cockroaches (even a picture of a cockroach), beetles, slugs, small moths, spiders, worms, flies, tiny brown pieces of cat food and even small bits of fæces.
		Consider Lucy, a chimpanzee who was initially a pet; when she grew too large for her owner, she was donated to research and became a test subject.
	www.flatrock.org.nz /topics/animals/are_animals_conscious.htm (6094 words)

	Science News for Kids: Feature: An Inspiring Home for Apes
		From 1978, when he was 9 months old, until 1986, Chantek lived with Miles in a trailer on campus.
		In 1986, after Chantek had grown too large for his quarters in Chattanooga, he was moved to the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta.
		Today, Chantek is 27 years old, and he has lived at Zoo Atlanta since 1997.
	www.sciencenewsforkids.org /articles/20040714/Feature1.asp (1431 words)

	Pindeldyboz: My Husband, the Orangutan by Chelsea Lowe
		Stuff like, "Chantek is a flower in the ground" or "Chantek is a cloud." Still, funny stuff for an ape.
		As far as I'm concerned, Chantek is a 400-pound brat.
		He undoes his cage door -- orangutans are excellent lock pickers -- and, when confronted, signs, "Chantek is a good boy" and mugs for his keepers.
	www.pindeldyboz.com /clhusband.htm (835 words)

	The Year of the Monkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From 1978 when Chantek was only 9 months, Dr. Miles raised Chantek as if he were her own child, in a trailer at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
		She encouraged him to learn and be shaped by human culture.
		Dr Miles communicated with Chantek using Orangutan Sign Language (based on signs from the American Sign Language for the deaf) for several years until he developed a vocabulary of several hundred signs and comprehended spoken English.
	www.ubctv.com /eng/monkey_Chantek.aspx (347 words)

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		Chantek, the Orangutan described earlier clearly used his signs to make requests.
		Chantek would, for example, "sign "dirty" to get into the bathroom to play with the washing machine, dryer, soap, etc." He also "stole food from my (the caretaker¹s) pocket while he simultaneously pulled my hand in the opposite direction.
		A final example of Chantek's deception was when he "stole a pencil eraser, pretended to swallow it and "supported" his case by opening his mouth and signing "food-eat".
	nl.ijs.si /~damjan/ape.html (1138 words)

	hairy tales
		truth be told i came upon an article about chantek this morning which launched me into hours of googling and ultimately lead to this post.
		chantek is an orangutan who for all intents and purposes was brought up as a human child.
		one of the most interesting tidbits of chantek’s story, to me, is the way he views himself as opposed to the non-signing orangs he lives with.
	thenonist.com /index.php/weblog/permalink/hairy_tales (1910 words)

	Non-human primates and language: paper
		However, Miles insisted on calling Chantek’s utterances ‘Pidgin Sign English’, because the "sentences are composed of signs combined in English word order but are devoid of articles and lack most of the grammatical morphemes of English" (Wallman 1992: 28).
		Comparing Chantek’s development to that of a human child, she found evidence that Chantek was using words and signs referentially.
		Like human children, Chantek showed different stages in his referential communication; he went from pointing to an object, to "labelling and semantic overgeneralization or undergeneralization" (Miles 1990:524) and ended up with representational naming.
	www.angelfire.com /sc2/nhplanguage/ftpaper.html (12462 words)

	ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. WEB SITE
		The three parties signed the Stock Purchasing Agreement, which includes details of the acquisition process, and other related documents on July 31 and the transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter.
		The acquisition has been approved by Chantek's board of directors, and has received full support from the Company's lending banks, all of whom have agreed to restructure the Company's current debt subsequent to the closing of the deal.
		Established in 1989, Chantek is a provider of semiconductor assembly services.
	www.shareholder.com /chipmos/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=140055 (479 words)

	GrungyApe - Language Studies
		Chantek, an adult male Bornean Orangutan, now living at Zoo Atlanta is skilled in over 150 American Signs.
		In an article written by H. Lyn White Miles, and passed into my possession via the Balikpapan Orangutan Society, Chantek not only uses his signs to express his desires and demands, but he has also proven to express the intelligent aspect of abstract concepts such as lying.
		'Chantek, it's not food, don't eat that' I warned, as he pulled me toward home.
	www.grungyape.com /old/language4.html (439 words)

	Humans, Nonhumans and Personhood, by Robert W. Mitchell
		For example, the sign-taught orang-utan Chantek imitated a two-dimensional photograph of a gorilla pointing to her nose.
		To perform this imitation, Chantek must have known how he would look when he performed the action depicted in the visual image, as well as how it would feel to create this action with his own body.
		Similarly, the orang-utan Chantek eschewed using the sign for milk and instead recreated part of his normal milk-getting situation: he 'gave his caregiver two objects needed to prepare his milk formula and stared at the location of the remaining ingredient'.
	www.animal-rights-library.com /texts-m/mitchell01.htm (3975 words)

	MonkeyFilter \| Orangutan Person (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Speculating on the nature of language and conciousness, poet and author Suzzane Antonetta speaks with Chantek, an orangutan with a fondness for cheeseburgers and ice cream.
		A project called ApeNet is working to put video feeds into Chantek's cage, to enable him to talk to Koko.
		What was the idea behiond bringing him up as a human child when it is quite clear he is not going to be allowed to lead a normal life as a human adult.
	monkeyfilter.com /link.php/7591 (1082 words)

	Chantek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chantek the orangutan has learned about 150 signs and uses them spontaniously.
		He is telling lies to get what he wants and uses a value system by using GOOD and BAD in appropriate context.
		Click here for a short article about him and the further plans of the Zoo Atlanta where he lives now.
	www.ex.ac.uk /~bosthaus/Lecture/chantek.htm (54 words)

	ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. WEB SITE
		On a consolidated basis, the gross margin for the third quarter of 2004 was 26% compared to 20% for the same period in 2003 and 27% for the second quarter of 2004.
		Excluding the effects of consolidating CHANTEK ELECTRONIC CO., LTD. ("Chantek"), gross margin was 33% for the third quarter of 2004 compared to 34% for the second quarter of 2004.
		Our gross margin before taking into account the effect of the consolidation of Chantek was strong at 33% primarily due to higher sales volumes and our ability to more efficiently leverage our cost structure.
	www.shareholder.com /chipmos/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=147962 (1028 words)

	CNN - Gifted orangutan lets his fingers do the talking - November 28, 1997
		Chantek knows 150 words in American Sign Language
		ATLANTA (AP) -- Chantek, a giant ball of orange fur, puts a fist to his chin -- sign language for orange.
		Chantek, who is nearing age 20, was born at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta and was sent to live with Miles at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for about nine years.
	www.cnn.com /EARTH/9711/28/signing.orangutan.ap (448 words)

	SCOTT FARWELL: Some monkey business, plus questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Please buy me a hamburger," said the primate Chantek, startling his trainer, who was in line at a McDonald's drive-through.
		Witnesses said Chantek's trainer, Pierre, who sports a goatee and a ponytail, gaped at his ape, and nearly crashed into the car in front of him.
		I'm joking, of course, but a great ape named Chantek did actually ask his trainers for a hamburger last month.
	www.press-enterprise.com /newsarchive/1999/09/25/938231947.html (660 words)

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